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Project title: ‘Ligala’ homestead

 

​Concept:

LIGALA is a luo word meaning a newly established homestead. 

Goyo LIGALA is the process of a married Luo man moving from his father’s compound to establish their own homestead.

This work explores the ceremonial process of rite of passage and its significance; it looks at symbols and the transition from one chapter of life to another. Why are there cultural elements that need to be observed for one to be able to establish a homestead? For example, traditionally a man will bring fire, a cock, an axe, his first son and partner woman on the day he is moving out of his father’s compound and start his.

Invasion of modernism, religious shift, financial obstacles, all these thoughts are what the artist is exploring in the work.

This piece is being re-worked on for the digital phase. It was conceived in 2011 and staged in Nairobi Kenya during solos and Duet.

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Concept and choreography ​- Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno

Assistant choreographer - Kebaya Moturi

Music - Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno, Aoko, Abu & Adis

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