A performance by Edna Jaime of “Um Segundo”
In November 2021, as part of its Moving Africa programme, the Goethe-Institut supported a visit to the Kinani - Festival Internacional de Dança Contemporanea in Maputo. As a result of this exchange, the Jomba! Contemporary Dance Experience, currently the longest-running and most prominent festival of contemporary dance in South Africa, was able to devise an artistic exchange between Mozambican and South African dancers and choreographers, resulting in the inclusion of 3 new dance works from Mozambique on the 2022 Jomba! programme. The Goethe-Institut is delighted to have been able to support the inclusion of one of these Mozambican works in the Jomba! programme.
Um Segundo (One Second), choreographed and performed by Mozambican choreographer Edna Jaime, in collaboration with Ivan Barros (artistic co-director), Eduardo Quive (text), Tiago Correia-Paulo (musical production), Singha (vocal capture) and Amosse Mahoche (lighting design); is a solo dance performance and installation which deals with the impact of the lockdowns necessitated by the COVID pandemic. The work portrays a strong and sassy woman fighting to rise off the floor and be seen and heard. Jaime’s body moves between the ancestral and the urban, the real and the virtual, as she comes out of her comfort zone and firmly declares the future is now! This amazing solo is an affirmation of powerful womanhood in a world made even more complicated by the injunction to `stay home’ imposed on people, and especially on women, during the COVID pandemic.
For booking information or for more information about the Jomba! programme, please visit the
Jomba! website.
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