A dancer performs a Jua Kali contemporary dance choreography at Kuona Trust Art Center in Kenya, almost 70% of the country’s population is third-class jobless traders and artisans who are willing to take over any low-income paying jobs to satisfy their day-to-day needs. These workers are known as the (JUA KALI Traders), a Swahili word used to define the pedestrian hustlers’ movements around the City while searching for job opportunities through the hot Sun. In Nairobi, A team of young dancers led by Jared Onyango, David Pallant, and Lea Piontrzakontev, professional contemporary danc


A dancer performs a Jua Kali contemporary dance choreography at Kuona Trust Art Center in Kenya, almost 70% of the country’s population is third-class jobless traders and artisans who are willing to take over any low-income paying jobs to satisfy their day-to-day needs. These workers are known as the (JUA KALI Traders), a Swahili word used to define the pedestrian hustlers’ movements around the City while searching for job opportunities through the hot Sun. In Nairobi, A team of young dancers led by Jared Onyango, David Pallant, and Lea Piontrzakontev, professional contemporary dance choreographers are using their skills in creating a dance choreography showing the daily move of Nairobi pedestrians from their homes through Nairobi’s hectic traffic to the industrial areas in search of job opportunities where only a few are always able to get access to jobs that are sometimes not paying that well.


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