Re-Morphed Cultural Renaissance Against Dysfunctional Existence

"I would tie fashion in to certain post modern ideas about the self. That there is no self even. That the self is a condition of disguise and that we can move back and forth in terms of sexualities, social being, in terms of all kind of sense of who we are." Wrote a feminist art historian in a interview with Thierry Mugler, in the 1990's.

Cross dressing, meaning, women dressed as men, male commoners dressed as elites, colonized dressed as colonizers, young dressed as tourists, cross dressing so, has been a powerful symbolic tool in African contexts as in western ones.

The African cases reminds us that individual actions are always shaped by family, gender, residential groups. Mass consumerism, nation building can be explored as they continue to develop in African societies.

We will perform in Mathare Slum, in the outskirts of Nairobi, with dancers from the area, costumes are specially conceived and produced there for this occasion.