Onyesha Thamani [‘Showing Value’]

ONYESHA THAMANI / SHOWING VALUE is an intimate, evocative performance that uses dance as a voice and as language to offer new perspectives towards gender (in)equality in Tanzania. It showcases the complex reality towards gender relations and the treatment of women in Tanzania, whilst offering a perspective of hope. With this performance Nantea Dance Company wants to break the cycle of indifference and absence, and to encourage connection through love, kindness, patience and empathy.

Nantea Dance Company is a Tanzanian based, non-profit contemporary dance company. Their performances are community-based projects and stem from the themes that are important for the local community in which they work. Despite their international tours, they always present their work to the local communities where they want to contribute to positive change and hope to promote and develop the contemporary dance scene in Tanzania, inspiring youths to became ambassadors of development and social change.