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Dance Limerick presents An Immigrant’s Story by Wanjiru Kamuyu

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See An Immigrant’s Story by Wanjiru Kamuyu on Thursday 8 October at 7.30 pm at Dance Limerick Performance Space

A busy performance season continues at Dance Limerick with a fascinating performance by Kenian American French dance artist Wanjiru Kamuyu, An Immigrant’s Story.

An Immigrant’s Story by Wanjiru Kamuyu is a Bessie Award winner in the category Outstanding Choreographer.
An Immigrant’s Story by Wanjiru Kamuyu is a Bessie Award winner in the category Outstanding Choreographer.

Wanjiru Kamuyu is engaged in questioning the notions of place, belonging and otherness. A cosmopolitan on three continents – Africa, North America and Europe – wherever she decides to set up home, is she considered an immigrant?

This dance solo interrogates the gaze upon the “foreigner” in a new space, new society. The work, through satire, offers a critical eye on the notions of place and placement that are prevalent in today’s political discourse. An Immigrant’s Story is a Bessie Award winner in the category Outstanding Choreographer.

Wanjiru Kamuyu holds an MFA from Temple University and began her career in New York with Urban Bush Women and Molissa Fenley. She has collaborated with artists including Bill T. Jones, Robyn Orlin, Bartabas, Irène Tassembedo, and Anne Collod amongst others. Since 2017, Kamuyu has created several works presented across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the US, as well as a dance film, La Visite (2020).


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Wanjiru Kamuyu holds an MFA from Temple University and began her career in New York with Urban Bush Women and Molissa Fenley.
Wanjiru Kamuyu holds an MFA from Temple University and began her career in New York with Urban Bush Women and Molissa Fenley.

In 2009, Kamuyu founded her own company, WKcollective, which creates immersive, visceral experiences through the medium of contemporary dance. WKcollective attracts multidisciplinary artists of diverse cultural backgrounds to the creative canvas. Drawing upon these art forms to stimulate fresh, innovative, vulnerable, raw, graphic art to generate personal and social reflection through a transformative celebration with dance.

See An Immigrant’s Story on Thursday 8 October at 7.30 pm at Dance Limerick Performance Space (St John’s Church, John’s Square, Limerick, V94 EP92)

Tickets can be bought here.

This programme is proudly presented by the Regional Dance Network: Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Dance Limerick, Tipperary Dance and Dance Cork Firkin Crane. Presented in association with the French Embassy in Ireland. The WKcollective Ireland tour is supported by the Institut Français and Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations’ program, Mouvements.

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