In Cape Verde's Creole Tuntunhi has several meanings, including “meander, going around and around” to reach a given place, a given word, something you want to say. This is what we did to make this show: experiment, talk, improvise… all together, entwining stories and knowledge in a multicultural and intergenerational path.

Tuntunhi has artistic direction and choreography by Filipa Francisco and was created under the project “Corre-Mundos-Transformação pela Art'Inclusiva”, which aims to empower personal, social and community development of migrants and descendants of migrants through art. This project, currently fostered by Mundo in Reboliço, was promoted by Associação Almada Mundo with the support of the Municipality of Almada and PARTIS & Art for Change, a partnership programme between the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and “La Caixa” Foundation.

In its genesis in Almada, the artistic proposal was to unite people around the creation of a performance organized in three stages: training, joint creation and final presentation. During the process we worked on issues like building trust in their bodies, their own imagination and voices, and the importance of imposing these silenced voices in global communities.

According to the programme, “we propose to approach the stories and personal paths, the journeys from birthplaces and the memory objects from these internal and external voyages, as ways to build a common ground, a mindset that leads us to the creation of movements, texts and actions that are part of this show”.