Qui sommes nous ?

Busara Dance Company was founded in August 2009 in Goma North Kivu/Eastern DR Congo, by dancers and choreographers Chito, Chikuru Lwambo and Justin Kabika.

Its creation is based on six years of experience as cultural facilitators in the cultural arts centre yolé! Africa and as dancers in its company Y! Dance, as well as supporting Hip-Hop dancers in Goma. Since 2005, the Lwambo brothers have developed excellent skills and expertise in contemporary dance and choreography through collaboration with various artists, participation in trainings and performance; and by seeking to change their social environment.

The company focuses its work on artistic creation, anti-trauma and social work. It initiates, spearheads and implements cultural projects, while maintaining a contemporary approach to traditional movement. Trying to reach a wide audience, the company aspires to reach different audiences to meet, to exchange and share within the overlapping fields of traditional and contemporary cultures.

The company is an artistic structure with the founding mission of serving the local communities in the Great Lakes Region. It strives to seek peace among the youth in local communities with the use of innovative approaches of social dialogue by using dance as a form of art against the social trauma that haunts this region shaken by conflict and war for so long.

Finally, the company is characterized by the contact with local communities; and the desire to meet others, sharing forms and styles, and finding inspiration in different cultures.

Aug 31, 2012

C’est quoi ton histoire


“I don’t know what « child » means. I don’t know what “soldier” means. All I know is that today I am alive. I try not to think about those I killed.
When I was 12 years old, soldiers came to my place. They promised my parents that they would pay me, I would be fed and I would receive an education. They gave me a Kalashnikov and they sent me to the battle field.
I am still alive but my friends are not anymore. They visit me in my dreams and we dance together.
Later, they made me have sex with girls. I fell in love with Safina. After the birth of our son, she ran away. I do not know where they are.
I am 16 years old now and I am still alive but my heart isn’t anymore.
That is my story. What is yours?”
http://www.ghanavisions.com/africa/23124-congo-kinshasa-dancing-for-a-better-society.html
Since its beginning, the war in the Republic Democratic of the Congo was marred by the use of child soldiers. In some parts of the country, children and teenagers continue to be forcibly recruited by armed groups.
Many of those children only know one thing: conflict. They are deprived of their childhood; and if they manage to escape from their kidnappers, they remain imprisoned in a life without security, peace and hope.
“C’est quoi ton histoire” tells the story of those without voice, without support in order to remember our brothers and sisters lost in the history. 






http://www.rnw.nl/afrique/article/la-danse-contemporaine-au-service-de-la-société
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