Listening Bodies | Zora Snake (Cameroon)

With Listening Bodies

Zora Snake, a native of Cameroon, is a dancer, choreographer and performing arts researcher. In addition to the Zora Snake Company, he also directs the Mondaperf Festival (Cameroon). His career began in urban dance and is now characterised in particular by innovative works in public spaces. He tours worldwide as a performer and solo artist. In the podcast, he takes us to the village of his birth, the Bépanda district in Douala, where he grew up and blocked streets and stirred up crowds with dance at an early age.

Snake talks about his love for the rapper Diams, the importance of youtube, hip-hop and spirituality to his work, as well as the different approaches he uses to work in public space in Europe or on the African continent.