Dance Into Space

DANCE INTO SPACE

About Dance into Space

Dance Into Space

exists to foster the appreciation, practice and training in performing arts especially dance and theatre for entertainment, education and in community engagement, through the exploration of traditional vocabularies and other elements of folk media. Dance Into Space has developed a unique contemporary dance theatre language for performance and for awareness & advocacy...

Mission

The Mission of Dance Into Space is to share artistic skills and experiences with people from all walks of life and to create quality works for local and cross border audiences.

Vision

The Vision of Dance Into Space is to have a society where dance and theatre are popular and are being utilized and enjoyed by all persons in all spheres of life.

Programs

Mixed Ability Projects

MAP

MAP involves youth artists with and without disability working together in contemporary dance and theatre training, performance creations and community outreaches. It is also a socio-cultural project which aims at inclusiveness of people with disability into society while breaking the taboos and stigma associated with disability. Dance Into Space has trained close to 100 dancers with disability and 7 new groups of mixed ability have been created and trained. For this work and for social inclusion of persons with disability, Dance Into Space received an award given by The National Council for Persons with Disability in the media category in 2011..

Community Outreaches

Dance into space develops creative works that tour local communities and show in unconventional spaces. This is in a bid to provide performances to populations that might not otherwise have access to quality arts.

Choreographic creations

Under the Artistic director projects are conceived and created through research devicing, rehearsals, production designs and premiered on professional platforms.

Trainings

Training involves contemporary dance theatre training programs for artists with and without disability in the company. Other art and community based groups also benefit from trainings offered by the company through collaborative performance creations and capacity building.

Breaking Barriers

Is a mixed ability dance and SRHR outreaches project in partnership with Amplify Change.

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Jukumu Letu

Jukumu Letu is the title of an Interactive Media Outreach Project (iMOP) that emphasises the use of new media forms to process and disseminate information that would motivate citizens to participate in the implementation of the constitution. Dance Into Space together with civil society partners implemented the project in Nairobi, Nakuru, Mombasa and Makueni with local artists and activists.In partership with CRE-CO.

Dance Meets Roots

DMR

DMR is an intercultural contemporary dance decentralization project that has up-to-date brought together a network of 19 active dance groups country-wide. The main objective of DMR is to decentralize contemporary dance by creating new groups, building new audiences and creating performance and training spaces in new areas. The project started with a successful pilot phase between 2007- 2009 in partnership with Arterial Network & Africalia Belgium.

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