Dancing Climate Activism in Africa: An interview with Mozambican dancer and choreographer Rosa Mário

Abstract

abstract This interview connects South African dance maker Lliane Loots in a conversation with Mozambican choreographer and dancer Rosa Mário. Mário has a history of making dance installation work that challenges the relationship of the female body to the natural world – with a sense of interrogating how dance, the body and the art she makes acts as an intervention toward Climate Justice in Africa. This interview, conducted over a series of email exchanges is an intimate encounter between two Southern African dance makers who care, in equal measure, about intersectional identities around gender and climate justice, and artistic practices for female African dance makers.