About Me

I am a Ugandan dance Artivist, who uses dance to deal with issues that affect people socially, politically and economically in the community. In my creative ideas and throughout the creative process curiosity and playfulness are guiding me. As an Artist from a traditional diverse background, I deconstruct movements to let the body create and transfer information, secrets and rhythms to build up the body’s own movement vocabulary.

For a long time now, I have sought to expand the range of my dance Artivism. The progression developed step by step, rather from the experiences I gained with time by meeting new people, planting new ideas and embracing the opportunity to involve my creative mind into projects with art creators with a remarkable pedigree, that led me to accept the process, while giving my very best to reach an excellence in articulating the passion of telling more than a story through movement. Most important to me as a black man is portraying myself in my black body to tell a story of how it matters, bringing awareness towards racism and discrimination.

After the rebellion of 1986 in Uganda, dance unified us. Uganda is a country with over 54 tribes, speaking different languages, and each tribe is seeking power. But music, dance and theatre arts have connected all tribes, united us and kept us stronger. This cultural process has impressed me ever since and put a strong influence into my creative work as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. For more than 13 years now I have created and contributed to the art forms of different art creators, not forgetting my own, mostly through collaborative programs. I am following my vision; with dance all different neighborhoods have a safer place to communicate and to have access to education, learning the dance art form. That way we can learn to take responsibility and become confident human beings with empathy in a tolerant society, without racialization.