Theater group "Ekatombe" opens week of shows do CIT
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- 19 Aug 2022
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The play is a narrative that mirrors Africa, as a continent of diverse cultures, languages ​​and peoples, in which the roots of civilizations are intense and culture intertwines with everyday practices.
African culture is continually celebrated in values, beliefs, customs, traditions, dances and songs, in ritual practices, ancestor cults... A plural continent marked by great ethnic and cultural diversity.
The work explores the African black and the various linguistic and aesthetic changes in Portuguese, but also in cuisine, customs and even religion, influences that endure in the majority of the Afro-descendant population concentrated outside and within the continent.
"Ekatombe" sends lovers of the performing arts to a reflection on African personality and emancipation, inconceivable outside of African cultural identity.
Under the artistic direction and direction of Pinto Nsimba, the text is a collective creation inspired by collections from the Ubunto and Mbote project, taken to the stage by nine actors.
Speaking to Jornal de Angola yesterday, director Pinto Nsimba said that the project comes from a work at the end of the master's cycle, in which he implemented the research into the imaginary text, which forced a set of technical requirements to be exposed on stage, that justify the production of the show. Read More...
