Flow and Fire, muziek- en dansvoorstelling door Vintani & Manuela - Casa Kinderen

Shaped by an intercultural and intergenerational artistic dialogue

The collaboration between Vintani and Manuela brings together different artistic traditions and embodied knowledge systems, creating a meeting point between Mozambican African rhythmic traditions and contemporary European performance practices.

Together they create a space in which these different backgrounds and ways of knowing coexist — not to merge them, but to listen to what happens when they meet.

Manuela Tessi and Vintani Nafassi have an ongoing artistic collaboration that focuses on interdisciplinary improvisation, where dance, African traditional music and real-time composition come together.

Manuela Lucia Tessi is an Italian dance artist based in the Netherlands, who works internationally as a performing artist, choreographer and teacher. Her artistic practice focuses on the relationship between movement and musicality, with a particular interest in improvisation, kinesthetic empathy and interdisciplinary performance.

Vintani Nafassi is a Mozambican percussionist, composer, dancer and teacher specializing in African traditional music and dance. Hailing from Maputo, he combines ancestral rhythms, voice and movement in his work, and performs with instruments such as mbira, adungu, djembe, seperewa and umtshingo. His work is dedicated to preserving and sharing African musical heritage, both through performance and education.