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NOYAM AFRICAN DANCE INSTITUTE PERFORMS AT BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL 2022

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Noyam African Dance Institute performs at Birmingham Festival 2022

In 2021, the Noyam African Dance Institute collaborated with ME Dance Company and Conception Dance Africa from UK and Grenada separately with help from the British Council.


The cooperation utilized accessible innovation to deliver Oceans of Independence, an exploratory dance piece that was performed all the while with three distinct nations across three different time regions in the COVID-19 period.


Following an effective trial last year, Noyam African Dance Institute (Ghana), ME Dance Professional Company, ME Dance Youth and Graduate Company, and Conception Dance Theater (Grenada) have been joined for the current year by Eloquent Praise Dance Company, Kidderminster College, among others at the Birmingham 2022 Festival in the United Kingdom.


The celebration, which structures as a component of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games right now continuous in Birmingham, will introduce Chain Stories; a thrilling site-explicit execution recounting the narrative of the people who came to contact with the chains made in the Black Country, and how that connects the locale to Commonwealth Countries.


Reflecting over the course of the long stretches of concentrated practice at the Newhampton Arts Center, the head of the Noyam African Dance foundation, that's what nii Tete Yartey expressed "It is miserable to believe that quite a while back individuals were caught from their homes, put in chains, and sent across the sea despite their desire to the contrary. Nonetheless, we are glad to have the option to utilize dance and music to recount the narratives of genuine individuals who battled for balance as well as the battles and agony of the people who were impacted."


"For Noyam African Dance Institute, the excursion from West Africa, Ghana to the United Kingdom to perform at the Birmingham Festival 2022 presents a potential chance to project not exclusively Ghana's customary moves, yet in addition critically, its lively and calculative contemporary dance structure.


This occasion is supported by the British Council, Arts Council England, Canal and River Trust, and Black Country Touring. The undertaking is likewise facilitated by ME Dance UK, and coordinated and arranged by Marica Edwards (UK), Nii-Tete Yartey (Ghana) and Cecilia Griffith (Grenada).

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