Wanjiru Kamuyu, the decolonized body

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The choreographer Wanjiru Kamuyu.

© Jennifer Jones

By: Yasmine Chouaki

1 min

Being a migrant can be a chance, it all depends on the color of the passport.

This was experienced by an artist always on the move, a luxury migrant apparently, our guest Wanjiru Kamuyu.

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After collecting often terrible stories of migration for

(5th solo project of her

), dancer-choreographer

questions the notion of home sweet home and our perception of the Other from elsewhere, because nomad, expatriate, refugee or immigrant.

To get you home, where is it?

is a question that regularly circulates in the body of this floating visitor, of Kenyan and American culture and now living in France. 

Wanjiru Kamuyu's musical choices

Lauryn Hill

Stevie Wonder

Somi

Wanjiru Kamuyu participates in

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