{"id":138142,"date":"2024-09-18T14:34:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/termin\/other-en\/frozen-power-138142\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T11:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T10:30:57","slug":"frozen-power","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/dance\/frozen-power-138142\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Power"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the dance production Frozen Power<\/em>, five performers and a live musician guide the audience through a multifaceted story of power struggles and intrigues and the lived resistance against German colonial rule in the territory of present day Tanzania.<\/p>\n

Choreographer Ian Mwaisunga piece begins on a street corner in Dar es Salaam, where a coffee vendor offers the audience a story to go with the coffee \u2013 a story that can be told in one way or another. Frozen Power<\/em> does not claim tell a certain truth, but it aims to open up a space for the negotiation of a memory, of a shared past and a possible future.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the historical figure of \u201cSultana\u201d, a female ruler from the Singida region who was said to hold extraordinary powers, the poetic dance piece addresses both the role of female rulers in anti-colonial resistance and the need to re-appropriate and re-imagine historical figures for today’s Tanzania.<\/p>\n

Ian Mwaisunga<\/strong> (Choreographer)<\/p>\n

Rachel Kessi<\/strong> (Dramaturge \/ Management)<\/p>\n

Martin Baasch<\/strong> (Dramaturgical Advice)<\/p>\n

Teddy Mtuta, Happyness Ndaki, Deosantus Ivan, Ulonzi Rajabu, Mahmoud Mbega<\/strong>
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