Company Dancer
Tebandeke is a dancer and choreographer from Uganda. His work stretches the idea of dance, expanding into contemporary art with drawings and sculptures. His work addresses urgent social challenges, mainly dominant ideas around ability. He uses his body to create his own dictionary of ability; developing a physical practice that encompasses various local and global dance traditions and movement techniques. “I am a dancer in a sector and a society that systematically marginalizes “disabled” people. I am a choreographer as I mobilize local communities to create a movement that will re-label “disability”. I am committed to decolonizing dance as a language that all can access and that benefits from diversity and the different notions of ability.”
Tebandeke has performance and choreographed across world, including locations such as the Netherlands (IntroDans), Belgium (Monkey Mind Dance Company), Burkina Faso (ANKATA), Austria (Dschungel Wien), Poland (Unusual Beings), South Africa (Jomba Dance Festival in Durban, Sibikwa Arts Festival in Benoni), Kampnagal Hamburg (Mental workout 2023), Berlin (Moving Margin Research 2022), Vienna (ImPulsTanz 2022), Sweden (Assitej children’s fest), Mali (Eco fest 2020), Freiburg (Contact Improv Festival, 2019), East Africa Nights of Tolerance Festival (Rwanda 2017), Tuzinne Festival (Uganda 2017- 2018), Ubumuntu (Rwanda 2018).
Photo by Ruphers Musanje