



With costumes and props that seem to come from the future, multidisciplinary and modern artist Djam Neguin creates a Na-Ná. According to a Cape Verdean myth, Na-Ná is said to play the traditional music instrument ferrinho. Together with his companion Funa, who played harmonica, they are said to have developed the dance and music style Funaná.
Besides music and dance, this style also consisted of traditional male behaviour. Funaná is said to have originated when slavery ended on the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. No one knows exactly whether Na-Ná really existed because the history of Funaná is not being saved in music script. It was traditional male behaviour in Santiago that ensured that this style of music and dance was preserved.
In an exuberant solo performance with traditional music, modern dance, theatre, light and fashion, Djam Neguin bends the man as ruler into an answer for the future.
Afrovibes Festival
This performance is part of the Afrovibes Festival. This annual festival brings dance, theatre and music performances by makers from Africa and the African diaspora to the Netherlands and brings them together. They give shape to current questions that are alive there and with us and have a unique vision on them. This year's theme is heritage. The makers show how they experience the current zeitgeist and their cultural heritage. They wonder what we can learn from the past about courage, ethics, collective strength. And about the tension between old African rituals and modern greed. What do we leave behind for the generations after us?
Credits:
Choreography & performance: Djam Neguin
Light: Manuel Sbrangtes
Sounds: Ricardo Figueiredo
Tourmanager: Gerard Casas