Jikinya Dance Festival To Empower Diverse Culture

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The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) and National Assocition of Primary are gearing up for the Jikinya dance Festival, which is to be held at Masvingo Polytechnic on the 25th of November 2016. Currently preparations are underway for the 2016 National Jikinya Dance Festival with the aim to inspire primary school children to appreciate and perform Zimbabwean traditonal dances. This is a crucial move because in turn it promotes and preserves Zimbabwe’s cultural heritage. The festival is opne to all provinces and evry province will be represented by first prize schools respectively.

Zimbabwe is a country endowed with a rich and diverse cultural heritage.  To promote cultural heritage the festival will platform the various traditional dances from primary school pupils showing diversity of different communities in Zimbabwe in the process. The festival running with the theme “Empowering Communities Through Dance” for the Jikinya Dance festival celebrations. Jikinya’s communication and marketing officer told Enthuse that

The theme and festival encourages communities to adopt safeguarding measures through dance so that                       communities appreciate the value of transmitting the skills from generation to generation for posterity.

The initiative backs the promotion of cultural heritage with economic benefits through making and selling costumes, props and training youngsters the dancing techniques.

Schools will showcase a dance of their choice and the well-known dance Ihossana. The dance is performed in Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa as a rainmaking dance. It was specifically picked by the NACZ as a festival piece that runs for two years and is judged as a Common dance. The event is free and is proudly sponsored by Delta Corporation.

Don’t miss out, Provincial Dance Festival are starting this week and below is the schedule:-

PROVINCE                                           VENUE                                                                    DATE (2016)

Bulawayo                                           Large City Hall                                                            1o November
Mashonaland East                          Mbuya Nehanda Hall (Dombotombo)                    11 November
Mashonaland West                         Norton 1 Primary School                                           11 November
Matabeleland South                       Wellton Primary School (Beitbridge)                      11 November
Manicaland                                      Chancellor Gvt Primary School (Mutare)               11 November
Harare                                               Chitungwiza Aquatic Complex                                  18 November
Midlands                                           Hama Secondary School (Chirumhanzu)               18 November
Mashonaland Central                     Mt Darwin Primary School                                        18 November
Matabeleland North                       Fatima High School (Lupane)                                   18 November
Masvingo                                          Mucheke Hall (Masvingo)                                          18 November

Main image sourced from World Arts West

Munashe Chakaonda

Munashe Chakaonda

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