About
Our Mission
The Dance Life Festival was founded in 2020 to give the rising dance scene in Nairobi a new stage to share, connect and reinvent the local dance practice. Since then we have organized three editions of the festival that has become the biggest event for dance in Nairobi. Our aim is to build a hub for the entire East African, creating more space to experiment and develop new pieces, especially through international cooperations.
The festival is a partnership between curator Adam Chienjo and the Goethe-Institut Nairobi and additionally supported by the Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH).
„For me, dance has always been a lifestyle. It is a career. I teach and I critique. It’s like breathing because every culture has dance. Dance can be used in many ways. It is therapy in that it helps express things that you cannot verbalise. Dance is a vocabulary of movement that is easy to use because it is relatable“
– Adam Chienjo, Curator of the Dance Life Festival