{"id":4532,"date":"2025-09-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=4532"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:56:47","slug":"masdanza-x-casa-africa","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/portfolio\/masdanza-x-casa-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRICA IN MOVEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dance is an extraordinarily suitable instrument for cultural diplomacy, and this is what <strong>MASDANZA<\/strong> has been doing all these years, collaborating in common areas with other cultural initiatives that have a special place for dance and the arts of movement.\u00a0 Casa \u00c1frica collaborates with the festival to provide visibility to African creators.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MASDANZA AFRICA IN MOVEMENT 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THURSDAY OCT 02 &#8211; CASA \u00c1FRICA &#8211; 20,00 h<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BLACK (30\u2019) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona, Spain<\/p>\n<p><strong>Created &amp; Performed by:<\/strong> Oulouy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Music by:<\/strong> Nina Simone \u201cStrange Fruit\u201d, Dinah Washington \u201cThis Bitter Earth\u201d Jay Z &amp; Pharrell Williams \u201cEntrepreneur\u201d, Kendrick Lamar \u201cAlright\u201d, \u201cThe Blacker The Berry\u201d, Samthing Soweto \u201cAkulaleki\u201d, Victoria Santa Cruz \u201cMe Gritaron Negra\u201d, Eva Ayllon \u201cRa\u00edces del Festejo\u201d, King Promise &amp; Shatta Wale \u201cAlright\u201d, Maya Angelou \u201cStill I Rise\u201d, Kenneth Whalum \u201cMight Not Be OK\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c<em>Black<\/em> is a reflection on violence and the emancipation of Blackness in today&#8217;s world, through a body that challenges and unsettles\u2014a body both wounded and celebrated. Using a staging stripped of artifices yet rich in symbolism, choreographer and performer Oulouy references recent events, such as the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the murder of George Floyd, to reframe the African Black body in the Western world. <em>Black<\/em> is a dance, a visual and musical chronicle told through urban dance styles from the African continent and its diaspora in the USA, such as Coup\u00e9-D\u00e9cal\u00e9, Ndombol\u00f3, Afrohouse, and Krump\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With the support of:<\/strong> Africa Moment<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-vivid-red-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/01-AFRICA-EN-MOVIMIENTO.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PROGRAMME<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dance is an extraordinarily suitable instrument for cultural diplomacy, and this is what MASDANZA has been doing all these years, collaborating in common areas with other cultural initiatives that have a special place for dance and the arts of movement.\u00a0 Casa \u00c1frica collaborates with the festival to provide visibility to African creators. MASDANZA AFRICA IN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6689,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"portfolio-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6871,"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4532\/revisions\/6871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-type?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}