Andreya ouamba biography of michael

Choreographing the Individual: Andréya Ouamba’s Contemporary (African) Dance Approach Amy Swanson “I don’t like to be invited somewhere because I’m African.

For me, it’s like I do not exist.

Andreya ouamba biography of michael

I do not exist in a pocket, you know? I want to exist because I am Andréya.” – Andréya Ouamba1 Andréya Ouamba’s choreography and pedagogy demonstrate a conflicted response to the incongruity of the persistent label “African.” As Director of Dakar-based Association/ Compagnie 1er Temps, Ouamba navigates conditions wrought by expanding neoliberal economic policies.

Ouamba and other artists of his generation, having come of age in an increasingly privatized artistic landscape, strive for recognition as individual artists who contribute to global contemporary dance circuits, not as “Africans.” Yet, they must contend with the loaded category African and its fraught signifiers that curators and audiences alike a