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.