Jared Onyango
Jared Onyango is a performer, choreographer, and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was a Pina Bausch Foundation fellow for dance and choreography in 2016 where he worked with Italian choreographer Francesco Scavetta of WEE Dance Company, based in Sweden and Norway. Jared was also a Cape Town University Fellow for the Institute for Creative Arts in 2020. For his Institute of Creative Arts Fellowship with the University of Cape Town, he presented the project Jua Kali Pedestrian as a digital performance for the University’s website.
Jared is passionate about environmental issues and has been working in community-led projects tree planting and river rejuvenation. In 2021, he was awarded the Mentorship Award for Cultural & Artistic Responses To Environmental Change by the Prince Claus Fund & Goethe-Institut.
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