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Second Maputo Interschool Arts Workshop​
​February 2010​


With a deep, resounding voice, a playful facial expression, and a powerful physical presence, eighteen year-old Sessie Agbley filled the cafeteria with excitement as he led his dance troupe onto the wooden stage.  The spindly eleven-year-olds in giant boots kept pace with the muscular older teens. They sang, chanted, and yelled in English, Portuguese, Changana, and Zulu. Many of the dancers are from Maputo; others come from all over the world. 

Agbley is a senior at the American International School of Mozambique (AISM), busy with school, sports and drama.  But after his experience at last year’s Interschool Music & Theatre Workshop, he says he would spend any amount of time dancing with the energetic local teenagers.

The gumboots and cultural dance group Agbley directed was certainly the show-stopper, but was only one of six dynamic workshop ensembles at this event, held at AISM in February.  Over one hundred and fifty students from eight different private and public schools in Maputo participated. The ensembles were formed at the start of the event, with the school delegations divided up to ensure a diverse mixture in each ensemble.

On Sunday, the groups came together to present an afternoon of multicultural performances: a play based on an Angolan story performed in Portuguese, English, French and Mozambican sign language, with a brief musical clip from Michael Jackson; dances from  Mozambique, South Africa, Israel, Canada, Germany, and Romania; choral pieces from Zambia, Swaziland, South Africa and the U.S; and a demonstration of the Afro-Brazilian martial art of Capoeira.

Local students from two large, public high schools and the special school for the deaf were eager to return for the second annual event.  An exciting addition this year was a youth dance group from the bairro immediately bordering AISM. This was an important part of the school's ongoing attempt to build a relationship with the neighboring community through a variety of student-led projects.

Students from all of the schools were excited to meet peers from different parts of the community.  “[I liked] the exchange and the fact that each student felt included and had fun,” said one student, a seventeen-year-old attending Polana High School, in Portuguese. “I had a chance to learn from those I didn't know and to show them a little that I do know.”

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  • Home
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    • Mission and Philosophy
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    • Classes and Workshops
    • Internships >
      • Job Descriptions
      • Apply Now - Summer 2022
    • Volunteer Opportunities >
      • Job descriptions
    • About Monteverde
  • Projects
    • Costa Rica >
      • Fiddler on the Roof 2017 >
        • Meet the Cast
        • Photo Gallery
      • Les Misérables 2016 >
        • Meet The Cast
        • Photo Gallery
      • Juego Malévolo 2015
      • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 2014
      • It's A Wonderful Life 2013
      • In The Heights 2013 >
        • Meet The Cast
        • Photo Gallery
        • Sponsors
      • Once On This Island 2012 >
        • Why Once On This Island?
        • Photo Gallery
        • A Parent's Perspective
        • A Board Member's Perspective
        • Sponsors
      • Little Shop of Horrors 2011 >
        • Cast Spotlight
        • Puppetry
        • Volunteer Profile
        • Sponsors
      • Oliver! 2010 >
        • Why Oliver!?
        • Meet the Cast
        • Photo Gallery
        • Sponsors
      • Urinetown 2009 >
        • Why Urinetown?
        • Meet the Cast of Urinetown
        • From the Audience of Urinetown
        • Photo Gallery - Urinetown
      • Music Man 2007
    • China >
      • Photo Gallery - Fiddler
      • Alumni Update China
      • Future Plans China
    • Mozambique >
      • Workshop May 2009
      • Workshop February 2010
      • Workshop September 2010
  • Contact
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