By Our Reporter
The annual Batalo Dance Fest is on this weekend.
Now in its 5th edition, this year the dance fest promises more dance competitions and performances showcasing groundbreaking new fusion of traditional and urban dance. The dance fest will see over 100 talented dancers battle it out in dance eliminations for Afro House, Top Rock, Krump, New style Hip Hop, Style Yake and all style crew battles, along with dance showcases and open workshops, all the way through to the finals.
There will also be a showcase of East Africa’s best hip hop and social development dance theatre performances in collaboration with over seven carefully-selected dance companies.
Batalo East will this year host DESTINO Dance Company from Ethiopia; Michèle Moss of Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD) and the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary in Canada; guests from Music and Dance Africa (MuDA) in Tanzania, East African Nights of Tolerance (EANT) from Rwanda, and dancers from as far away as Egypt, Zimbabwe, the eastern DRC and throughout Uganda.
Batalo Dance Fest will be a two-day event kicking off on Saturday, August 26 at noon and closing on Sunday, 27 August at 7pm. It will be held at Ndere Cultural Centre and tickets go for 10K.
