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After
the Ballet
Inganzo UK 2002 tour, INSHUTI-UK was set up after the first tour of
Ballet Inganzo to the UK in 2002 in order to develop the potential of
the Ballet and to use the profile of the group to instigate associated
cultural, educational and development projects.
In July 2003, three founding members of Inshuti-UK travelled to Rwanda
to visit the Ballet and set up projects that will help their wider community
in the long term.
Projects include:
The
establishment of a friendship programme between Rwandan
schools and UK Schools Communications will allow the two cultures
to gain a wider understanding of each-other, and it is hoped that the
UK schools will be able to provide material assistance through books,
clothes and fund-raising.
Assistance
to local HIV/AIDS
projects such as the 'Association des Jeunes Scolarisé contre
le SIDA' - run by a young team committed to educating their peers in the
principles of safe-sex and to confronting the local taboo against condom
use.
Inshuti-UK
are working to create a channel for these African drums
to be brought to the UK for resale, with all profits going back to
Rwanda to help the community. The development of Ballet
Inganzo, a group of teenage musicians from Rwanda will be shortly
be touring the UK sending out a powerful message of unity and reconciliation,
and introducing UK audiences to one of Africa's most established yet least
exposed musical traditions.
Six
members of Ballet Inganzo travelled to the UK
in July 2002 for a month long series of performances and education
workshops.
"I never thought I would have the opportunity to visit other parts
of the world. I currently believe that anything is possible" Consolee
Nyiransingizimana - member of Ballet Inganzo
The musicians and dancers will travel to the UK on
March 19 for a seventeen day series of music workshops in London schools
and performances. The tour is being organised and managed by Inshuti-UK,
a London-based collective dedicated to raising international awareness
of this traditional form of musical drama from Central Africa, and to
providing development assistance to the community of Ruhengeri and the
surrounding area.
The Rwanda Forum on Saturday 27 March
remembered the 800,000 to a million Tutsi and Hutu moderates murdered
in just three months by the Hutu extremist government ten years ago this
month.
The
day concluded with a performance by Ballet
Inganzo a Rwandan dance troupe composed of Hutu and Tutsi performers
- an emblem of reconciliation
Hampshire
County Youth Orchestra will host Ballet Inganzo, an exciting young
dance company from Rwanda. Formed from three Rwandan tribes that until
recently were engaged in civil war, Ballet Inganzo was founded as part
of a process of reconciliation by group director François Nkinzehwiki.
See them at The Anvil, Basingstoke Saturday 13 July 2004.
During July, the company will also be giving workshops and performances
in 11 Hampshire schools.
Information compliments of http://www.pangaeamusic.co.uk/
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