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MUNTU
DANCE
www.muntu.com
About
the Company
Muntu Dance Theatre is a Chicago-based company that performs authentic
and progressive interpretations of contemporary and ancient African
and African-American dance, music and folklore. The Company has
existed on the spirit and unbounded energies of its directors,
dancers, musicians and staff since 1972 and has achieved an acclaimed
reputation for making a consistent artistic statement of cultural
and historical significance.

A colorful and invigorating professional company, Muntu has brought
its audiences into the aisles with its unique synthesis of dance,
rhythm and song. The Company has received enthusiastic and critical
acclaim not only in Chicago, but throughout the United States
and abroad.

The Artistic Director, Amaniyea Payne, is an accomplished performer
who has established herself as one of the country's leading and
most rewarding choreographers in cultural dance. She has performed
throughout the United States, the West Indies and Europe and has
provided artistic consultancies and professional services to numerous
arts organizations world-wide.
It is a requirement of the Company that we research the cultural
and historic significance of the dances and the societies from
which they originate. In this manner, we are not simply a performing
company, but a company of teachers as well - an essential element
to the perpetuation of our art form and its accurate transmittal
to our audiences. Muntu strives continuously to increase the level
of awareness of, and appreciation for African culture in the context
of a professional performing art form.
We understand that there is merit in all cultures. We seek to
appreciate the differences in order to amplify the similarities.
Muntu Dance Theatre is a member of the African American Arts Alliance,
Chicago Dance & Music Coalition and International Association
of Blacks in Dance
Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago
6800 S. Wentworth Ave., 3E96, Chicago, IL 60621
www.muntu.com
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