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Day of Film & Dance with Afro’Dance Emerges
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Details
Join AfroDance New York, Cumbe and AFF for a day of dance, conversations and movement! Find out more about the films below. $10 suggested donation
Schedule
1:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Doors open
1:15 pm to 3:10 pm
I Love Kuduro screening + Q&A
3:10 pm to 3:55 pm
AfroDance Panel
4:05 pm to 5:55 pm
Martha & Niki screening + Q&A
6:00 pm to 6:50 pm
Showtime screening + Q&A
About our Year-Round Community Engagement
Community engagement is essential to the AFF mission. We partner with a broad spectrum of arts and social justice organizations to spark discussion and activate the public around African cinema and culture. Learn More
Films
I Love Kuduro
Mário Patrocínio
/ Angola and Portugal / 2014
/ 96mins
Stars of an urban cultural movement born in Angola influence scores of young Africans through music.
Martha & Niki
Tora Mårtens
/ Sweden / 2015
/ 93mins
In 2010, Swedish friends Martha Nabwire and Niki Tsappos were the first-ever female hip-hop dance duo to beat all of their opponents—men included—at the most important international street-dance competition, Paris’s Juste Debout.
Showtime
Shawn Antoine II
/ USA / 2018
/ 15mins
Darius and Hakeem dance on New York City trains to earn honest money and escape the crime in their neighborhood. Their friendship is tested when an unforeseen opportunity arises.