Africa-Press – Angola. The provincial government of Malanje is working on the short-term implementation of a project to revitalize folkloric and traditional music and especially dances, and other cultural aspects lost over time.
The information was provided to press by the director of the Provincial Office for Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports, Fernandes Cristóvão, having stressed that contemporary dances, with emphasis on hard Kú, modern semba and other styles, including foreign ones, have been taking place the traditional ones.
Speaking on the occasion of the national culture day, which is celebrated January 8, the official explained that for this reason, the government has been working hard to reverse this situation, although all musical and dance styles are part of of Angolan culture.
“Modern dances have been gaining space in the market, leaving out folk and traditional dances, hence the concern to work hard in order to revitalize more and more traditional styles”, he stressed.
He made it known that with a view to achieving this goal, the department he directs promoted in 2022, the first provincial festival of folk and traditional music and dance, with a view to encouraging respect and preservation of these and other cultural disciplines.
On the other hand, Fernandes Cristóvão recalled that Malanje has always been a region typical of plastic arts, with emphasis on ceramics, a sector that should also be boosted, in addition to recovering the old ones and building new spaces for scenic representation and other categories, with a view to enhancing culture in its various variants.
According to the director, everything is being done to create spaces and opportunities for cultural action for current and future generations, hence the regular holding of provincial festivals on different disciplines.
Without advancing numbers of practitioners, he pointed out theater and contemporary dances as the cultural arts most practiced in the province.
National Culture Day was established in 1986, in honor of the speech given by the first Angolan president and founder of the nation, António Agostinho Neto, on the occasion of the inauguration of the governing bodies of the Union of Angolan Writers (UEA).
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