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Anuarite Gikonyo

@anu.a.rite

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Dance Artist | Researcher | Writer || 🇰🇪
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I get up in the morning and I say, what a thrill it is to live! What new beauty is going to come into my life today? What new hope for man is going to come today?

Thank you @alesandraseutin_mamavo and @wesleyruz for welcoming me to @ecoledessables, for inviting me to nourish and be nourished by the magic of its soil.

To Vincent Mantsoe, Wanjiru Kamuyu and Aunty Mshai Mwangola, I must thank higher powers for your wisdom and guidance. It seems that we meet people right when we are supposed to meet them.

Thank you to my beautiful family, my new friends already dear to me, and our fierce community! Truly, we have everything we need to manifest anything we dream.

I am leaving Senegal with a full heart, feeling rooted, inspired and blessed. Eager for work ahead, and ready share my inner light ❤️‍🔥 by @anu.a.rite

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2 years ago

How (Do) We Re-Member/? (2025)
📍Martha Hill Dance Theatre | Bennington, VT
📸: @crossed__paths 🫶🏾

Over the years, I have gathered stories of my parents, grand parents, great grand parents, great great… These have become a personal music on the days I feel lost.

“How (Do) We Re-Member/?” is my first solo piece, working with the oral and gestural documents from my lineage. It is dance, it is theatre, it is poetry, and naturally afro-contemporary.

I attempt an intimate recount of history in the “Kenyan” context and in the process, trouble the sterility and claims of “truth” narrated by our national history. I am also challenging a linear perception of time, where the past is behind rather than in us.

This piece, for me, exists at the limits of language, slipping between the weight and freedom of memory. It is a space to both honour and mourn the gaps. In partnership with a podium, lights, sound and script, the narrator (“I”) traverses through a fragmented landscape of immediate and distant pasts.

What an empowering journey creating and performing this piece has been!! An affirmation of the power of showing up, even when it gets difficult. Of claiming and sharing my story. Which lives in, but does not begin with “I”.

(Choreography, Sound, Lights, Text & Podium by Yours Truly ✨) by @anu.a.rite

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a year ago

I smiled so hard these days, my jaw was hurting 🥴❤️

My thrilling four-year journey in the United States recently came to a beautiful close: Having completed a Bachelor’s in Dance and Cultural Studies, shared parting words of inspiration as the Senior Speaker and surrounded by my loves, my mother, teachers and dear friends I call family, in this second home.

I am bathed in a gracious ocean of love and support. Thank you to all who saw me, believed in me, worked with me to keep my ambitions large and the inner fire burning bright yet steady.

“We are here, and thank God that we are. Our work is not finished, and thank God that it isn’t” ✊🏾✨ by @anu.a.rite

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Behind the scenes of a two-hander play: 80% intense acting, 20% David trying not to break his back copying Kui. 🕺🏽💼
We are bringing an absolute roller coaster of psychological and spiritual tension to KNT from October 24th – 25th, but we have to survive the rehearsal room first!
If you want to see how this Stiff Cop vs Fluid Dancer dynamic unfolds on the main stage, you need to lock down your seats today.
🔗 Click the link in our bio before the Advance tickets are SOLD OUT! by @anu.a.rite

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10 days ago

We can explain 😂😂😂
STAY play will be staged at Kenya national theatre
🗓️ 24th & 25th October
Get your tickets on Mookh.com by @anu.a.rite

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15 days ago

(T/His)story lives in, and does not begin with “I” 🪾

“How (Do) We Re-Member/?” came home to Kenyan soil and an intimate audience at NAFSI YETU,,,

Opening conversations about history and ancestry;
Re-membering in the belly of the post-colony; Celebrating and mourning in the same breath, same song, same body,,,

What an honour to share this piece alongside @vince_odhis’s “AYIE” ! Thank you to everyone who made it out 🙏🏾

A special thanks to @upstagelimited @nawiri_mvmnt & @artzonestudios for the invitation, and this beautiful evening in the books🫀✨

Photos 📸: @zazu_mophasa
Costume 👗: @shafikodez
Sound 🎶 : with @nasrinism_ by @anu.a.rite

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25 days ago

Why do we stay? Despite failure, grief, loss, “unfair circumstances”, things we cannot explain, curveballs?
What is beneath the human nature to be resilient?

These questions and more on the 24th and 25th October at Kenya National Theatre.

Tickets are available at mookh.com or the link in bio.
See you there.
#stay #stayalive #stayhuman #staysane #staystrong by @anu.a.rite

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a month ago

✨ HOW (DO) WE RE-MEMBER /? ✨

Join Nafsi Yetu for an evocative dance performance by @anu.a.rite
📅 19th September 2026
🕕 6:00 PM onwards
📍 Artzone Studios, Baricho Rd
🎟️ KSh 1,000
Come experience movement, emotion, and memory through the body. Don’t just watch—remember with us. 💫 taken in Nairobi, Kenya by @anu.a.rite

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a month ago

Cameras on, smiles out! 📸🎭 We’ve got something exciting coming your way.

STAY will be staged at the Kenya National Theatre on 24th & 25th October .Get ready for an unforgettable theatre experience filled with amazing performances, emotions, and so much more.

Mark your calendars and come STAY with us.🎭 by @anu.a.rite

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a month ago

The second edition of Nafsi Yetu is upon us.
The lovely and talented Anu @anu.a.rite will be presenting her solo.

How (Do) We Re-Member/?

"How (Do) We Re-Member/?" is a multi-faced moving portrait of "I". It embodies the dis/connections between Kenya's colonial history, Kikuyu ethnic history, and family history. It offers performance to expand the historical “document”, giving room to myth, emotional landmarks and personalised recounts. This piece insists the past resides in "I", not behind. "I" journeys through memories, honouring the known and the absences that haunt. Ultimately, "I" claims its place as a conduit for a full (hi)story; layered, beautiful and troubled as it comes"

Buy your tickets now to save you a spot.
Paybill :303030
Ac: 2050748629 taken in Nairobi, Kenya by @anu.a.rite

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a month ago

📣 NEW CLASSES ALERT! 📣

Inuka Cultural Center is excited to announce our partnership with Daydreams & Dumbells.

We will be offering:
✨ Capoeira Angola
✨ Breakdance
✨ Traditional Kenyan Dance
✨ House Dance
✨ Contemporary
✨ Ballet

Monday to Friday from 3:30 - 6:00 PM at 41 Kyuna Crescent!

Join us for children classes, adult classes, and make the most of the D&D Gym and Spa 🏋🏿‍♀️🧖🏾‍♀️

📌 DM @daydreams to reserve your spot today ❣️

We look forward to seeing you there 😊 taken in Kyuna by @anu.a.rite

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2 months ago

📣 NEW CLASSES ALERT! 📣

Inuka Cultural Center is excited to announce our partnership with Daydreams & Dumbells.

We will be offering:
✨ Capoeira Angola
✨ Breakdance
✨ Traditional Kenyan Dance
✨ House Dance
✨ Contemporary
✨ Ballet

Monday to Friday from 3:30 - 6:00 PM at 41 Kyuna Crescent!

Join us for children classes, adult classes, and make the most of the D&D Gym and Spa 🏋🏿‍♀️🧖🏾‍♀️

📌 DM @daydreams to reserve your spot today ❣️

We look forward to seeing you there 😊 by @anu.a.rite

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