Equipped only with a small video camera, a sound recorder and my dancing body I got to know new friends in Grand Popo. For me, the dances that I participated in during my time in Villa Karo was a part of a continuous, international and intercultural exchange. In this text I want to discuss dancing […]
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Dances of the present
Posted in About Benin and it’s Culture, African culture, Benin, Culture, Dance, Finland, Finnish-Beninese Co-operation, Music & Concerts, Teatteri, Uncategorized @en, Villa Karo, Benin, Grand-Popo
Also tagged Artists, Benin, Cultural exchange, Culture, Dance, Finnish-Beninese Co-operation, Grand-Popo, News on Villa Karo, Reflections, Sandrina Lindgren, stipendiaatit, Villa Karo
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Vendors of all things
In a nocturnal landscape, abandoned and deserted petrol stations. The story you find is never the one you expect from the outset. I could not envision a sense of a nearly total disability of verbal communication, though I knew I lacked any knowledge of the local languages. You get along with French but my french […]
Posted in About Benin and it’s Culture, African culture, Benin, Culture, Finnish-Beninese Co-operation, Villa Karo, Benin, Grand-Popo, Voodoo, West Africa
Also tagged Artists, Comé, Cultural exchange, Grand-Popo, Hans von Schantz, stipendiaatit, tourism, Villa Karo
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