Guided by charismatic Rafael Palacio, Afro-Colombian dance company Sankofa Danzafro will be in Italy for the first time to participate in the 2024 Venice Dance Biennale with Behind the South: Dances for Manuel, an homage to Colombian author Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920 –2004) that took inspiration from Zapata Olivella’s Changó, el gran putas, an epic novel published in 1983. The show follows the five acts of the novel in trying to keep alive any existing bond with native countries during the painful African diaspora in the Americas.

24 July h. 21
25 July h. 19
Teatro Piccolo Arsenale