Artists Profiles

Ane Lan

Ane Lan

Ane Lan is a Norwegian artist working in the field of performance, music and experimental film/video. In his performance works, he often stages himself in a different identities based on either gender, race, religion, or class. By this obvious impersonation he wants to examine how identity and power are constructed and structured through defining “the [...]

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Mercy Mirembe & Occasional Theatre

Dr. Mercy Mirembe Ntangare is an academic, folklorist and playwright. She hold a Doctor of Philosophy degree and teaches Drama, Theatre marketing and folklore (cultural Identity studies) at music dance and drama (MDD) department, Makerere University, Kampala where she is former head of department (July 2002 – March 2009). She is currently deputy dean in [...]

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Yuttah Konvictz Society

Yuttah Konvicts society was started in 2007 by Tereka Kenneth Desire to stomp yard for the other young dancers like him who rarely had the opportunity to learn or perform cotemporary dance but have love for the craft inspired by the tale of convictz in Luzira prisons. Upon hearing some of the stories during a [...]

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Youth & Hip Hop Project

The Youths & Hiphop Project is a 3 years skills project which falls under the Uganda Youths Cultures that was drawn by the Danish Centre for Cultural & Development (DCCD), funded by the Royal Danish Embassy, and run by Bayimba Cultural Foundation as its local consultant/implementer. It covers 6 regions of Uganda that Bayimba Cultural [...]

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Uganda National Contemporary Ballet

The Uganda National Contemporary Ballet is composed of eight dancers and one percussionist, the leader from Percussion Discussion Africa. They all originate from different dance companies in Kampala and have been performing together as one company for two years now. They are trained in contemporary, classical jazz, traditional dance and hip hop, all of which [...]

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Tshila & Cassava Republic

Tshila was born on the 10th June 1983 in Kampala Uganda. She never grew up surrounded by musicians, and neither did she ever have music on the curriculum at any of the schools she attended growing up. However, she ended up being one of the most noteworthy talents to come out of the East African [...]

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