Black Choreographers Festival: Tigner

It wasn't a dream - the drums playing a mysterious rhythm that Latanya d. Tigner heard every night in Congo. Still, no one else could hear them it seemed, and so she concluded they must be talking directly to her for a reason.

Those drums and the many experiences Tigner brought back with her from a 2010 visit to the Republic of the Congo inspired her latest choreographic venture, "Ndozi/BaNkaka: Those Who Sit With Us," a collaboration with drummer Kiazi Malonga that features on the second of three weekends of the ninth annual Black Choreographers Festival, which begins on Saturday.

It was on her first night in Brazzaville, Tigner recalls, as she turned into bed, that she heard the drumming.

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