How does the future dress? With a blinding, loud and purifying surreal fashion concert, the African-European Jitta Collective aims to re-think the heritage of cultural appropriation. In a playful subversive change of perspective, Chombotrope connects elements taken from voguing and modern dancing with beatboxing, rap, drums and turntables. This creates a mix of futuristic identities using an unusual language of dancing that sweeps you away and fascinates. Using an exaggerated and personal practice of self-authorisation, the Collective creates a wormhole between two continents: Tradition and stolen cultural possessions are being linked, twisted and bundled; thus, creating a new narrative. Forbidding and bafflingly lacking in origin, animism is interwoven with science-fiction and the spiritual with technology.

A production by MOUVOIR e.V. Germany & Tuchangamke Group, Kenia. In co-production with the Akademie der Künste der Welt / Köln (ADKDW) as part of the PLURIVERSALE VII, tanzhaus nrw, Nairobi Festival of Performance and Media Arts – NFPMA and Goethe Institut – International Coproduction Fund.

In cooperation with: freihandelszone – Ensemblenetzwerk Köln, GoDo.wnArtsCenter, Nairobi

Funded by: Kunststiftung NRW, NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) / Coproduction Fund for Dance, kindly supported by the Federal Government's Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Office for Cultural Activities Cologne.