Mozambique: Wamini Wamini premieres at Casa Velha, Maputo

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Mozambique: Wamini Wamini premieres at Casa Velha, Maputo

6:01 CAT | 27 Aug 2025

Photo: O País

The Converge+ Cultural Association and the Raiz Festival Project will on Friday premiere the performance “Wamini Wamini,” by Enoque Simomole, Bobby Bakhar and Mutualibo, at Casa Velha in Maputo.

Wamini Wamini is a choreographic journey that intertwines the ancestral power of traditional dance with the expressive freedom of contemporary dance.

Inspired by the idea that everyone carries roots that connect us to our origins, it recovers movements, rhythms, and symbols inherited from ritual and ancestral practices, with the vigour of nyau, coroxo, xigubo and other community body expressions, reconstructing them in a dialogue with the contemporary body.

On stage, three dancers move through five moments that reflect the cycle of life: birth, connection with the land, communion with the community, confrontation with time, and, finally, the symbolic return to origins.

Each gesture echoes collective memories, while the music fuses traditional drums and voices with modern sound textures, creating a space where past and present merge.

The performance celebrates the essence that spans generations, reminding us that, regardless of the path taken, everyone derives from tradition and it is in tradition that true movement is found.

Wamini Wamini is the second public presentation of the results of the Training for the Professionalization of Traditional Dancers in a Contemporary Context, which took place from June 2 to 27 in Maputo.

The program is funded by the Création Africa – Mozambique Fund, of the French Embassy in Mozambique, and is implemented by the Converge+ Cultural Association and the Raiz Festival Project, with the support of the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre.

Source: O País