Vilde Sparre - Choreographer
Umoja Cultural Flying Carpet
Umoja Cultural Flying Carpet is a collaborative program that involves Art institutions (music, dance and circus) fom Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Norway.
Vilde Sparre was engaged as a choreographer in the program by Oslo National Academy of The Arts from 2006-2009 in cooperation with Norwegian Academy of Music.
The project involved developing a national performance with students from the Norwegian Academy of the Arts and the Norwegian Academy of Music and a Umoja-performance involving participants from all countries during an interdisciplinary camp in Africa.
Vilde Sparre also worked as a choreographer at the Umoja Festival in 2007. Umoja Festival is the biggest cultural event in Mozambique with a live audience of about 100 000 people. It is produced for television and distributed for broadcasting in more than 20 African countries.
