During their two-week residency at Kampnagel, popping dancers Donya Ahmadifar and Virginia Breitenbaumer explore the connection between their cultural roots in Ahwaz in Iran and Nairobi in Kenya. At the center of their artistic process are the sounds of tombak and ngoma - traditional Iranian and Kenyan drums that form a rhythmic basis with which they want to expand their popping dance vocabulary. In doing so, they question and transform learned forms of movement and explore dance as an expression of identity, belonging and cultural resilience.
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