CREATIONS
YiN - YanG
Creation by Tadhi Alawi
Dancers Tadhi Alawi and Samwel Japhet
Costumes Esama AfroCulture Original music composed by Shabani Mugado, Bandukine and Sigermaster
World premiere at Tanzlabor in Ulm, Germany, March 17th 2024
Production by Nantea Dance Company.
Duration 60 minutes
White supremacy is gaining a foothold in various regions, both on the mainlands and islands. Unfortunately, it has become somewhat normalized and accepted, especially since we have welcomed them back as tourists. This acceptance has led to a sense of frustration and a diminishing of our own freedom. The influence of their power has led authorities to prioritize their interests over those of the local population. It is disheartening to witness this happening in my community. In a poetic composition of dance, music, text, YIN-YANG is a performance that explores the concept of balance and imbalance in life and uses the contrast between black and white colours to express the experiences of individual perspectives on human and social.
DAR ES SALAAM - A house of peace
The concept idea and performance by Tadhi Alawi
Pictures & Script writer by Magnus Keske
Filmed and edited by ARI SNOW
Original music composed by Shabani Mugado
Duration 40 minutes
Dar es Salaam - A house of peace is a dance performance duration of 40 minutes combining pictures, music and a short dance film. The performance telling stories and showing perspectives about Dar es Salaam since Tadhi was born until now and what the future of Dar es Salaam will be.
Tadhi Alawi is a dancer and choreographer who was born in the slum area in Mwananyamala, Dar es Salaam. He has witnessed these changes while growing up living in different districts of Dar es Salaam and finding his own way to project the voice through his own movement inspired by the lifestyle and community who grew up with in the city of Dar es Salaam.
Choreograped by Alawi Saidi (Tadhi) and Samwel Japhet
Produced by Nantea Dance Company
Music composed by Shabani Mugado
Duration 15 - 45 Minutes
A moment is a duet which demonstrates the complexity and layers of a moment. It talks about how a moment can change an individual’s attitudes to thoughts, experiences and life in general. The interpretation of this piece shows the power of courage, built up through the events that happen in ones life by surprise and later lead us to patience, attentiveness and understanding in facing challenges or joys.
The dance piece explores the questions of how moments define our existence and how our existence and experiences depend on how we experience the current moments.
The dance is centered around the concept of moments, existence, courage and our unique and personal interaction with them. It explores the physical and emotional possibility to demonstrate our shared moments with one another and how we show support, care and comfort while experiencing it.
A MOMENT
2021
Fake it until you make it
Choreograped by Alawi Saidi (Tadhi)
Music: Dreammaker Zonk't
Duration 20 Minutes
A contemporary dance theater piece that talks about the journey of artists to success. All artists have dreams and plans to success but in middle of the journey most of them give up because of the challenges that line their careers for so long, freedom, abuse, betrayal, rape, despair, a lack of money, a life full of drama. All artists have to pass some of those challenges to achieve success in their career. Unfortunately their success will never show the reality to audiences and people. Instead people start to see an illusion of a successful career and confuse it with a successful life.
2019
African WAYS
Choreograped by Alawi Saidi (Tadhi)
Music: Hukwe Zawose, Prof. Lumumba Speech
Duration 15 Minutes
What is Africa?
The brain is full of thoughts. Thoughts that are restlessly moving. Some of them do so in cowardice and truth, influenced by faith, love and a lack of freedom. This performance tells about the built up and created heritages that Africa is left with.
2018
Choreographed by Nantea Dance Company
Duration 15 Minutes
Short and Tall refers to the habits of every day life. In the life of a long and contentious term has ruled contempt and who would rather break off the relationship, but you are building a relationship. Every corner of the world there are of this type and friends who remain in relationships tend to overlap between the individual heights.
SHort and tall
2017
UTu: dignity
Choreographed by Alawi Saidi (Tadhi)
Duration 45 Minutes
UTU is a performance talking about people. There is kindness in people and people without kindness. When dignity is lost people run from their homes. Talking about frequent civil wars in different countries in and out of Africa the innocent generations get lost.
2016
Choreographed by Alawi Saidi (Tadhi)
Music: Hukwe Zawose
Duration 20 Minutes
The idea for this piece was born out of observation of youth in my community, watching them copy foreign dance moves whilst they don’t even know Tanzania's own indigenous movements. We do not really appreciate our ancestors spirits anymore. For example when performing rituals nowadays people think about witchcraft however in the past these were respectable ceremonies.
I believe that if we forget or ignore our communities spirits bad luck will come.. External influences in dance will always be there and are mostly positive, however it is important to know our roots.
Body vs mouth
Choreographed by Nantea Dance Company
Duration 20 Minutes
The inspiration to this piece came after reading about the poaching of elephants in the Tanzanian ‘Citizen’ Newspaper, the WWF Reports and watching television news. As patriots of our country and a artists who can address social issues we worked on this project aimed to educate people about the importance of coexisting with wildlife.
Value of life
