CROSSBEATS
CROSSBEATS
Crossbeats is a transdisciplinary performance where music, dance and storytelling move across cultures, bodies and generations. At its heart is the Timbila, a Mozambican musical instrument and dance traditional practice, brought into dialogue with electronic sounds, contemporary movement and performative storytelling.
Rather than treating tradition as something fixed or distant, Crossbeats explores it as living material: something that can be shared, transformed and reimagined through encounter. Artists from Mozambique, Italy and the Netherlands build a common stage language through rhythm, gesture, voice and sound, creating a collective performance shaped by exchange rather than single cultural perspectives.
Inspired by Lina Bo Bardi’s vision of folk traditions as artistic synthesis, Crossbeats looks at heritage through a contemporary lens. The result is a powerful and hybrid performance that connects memory and experimentation, local identities and global imaginaries, inviting audiences to experience tradition not as the past, but as a source for new creative possibilities.
About the makers
Laura Agnusdei is a saxophonist and electronic musician from Bologna, Italy. Her solo project explores the possibilities of electroacoustic composition, creating soundscapes within which the saxophone remains the main narrative voice.
Vincenzo Castellana | AcquAria is an interdisciplinary artist with a deep knowledge of percussion, developed through the exploration of diverse cultural traditions.
Idio Chichava is a Mozambican performer, choreographer and artistic director, founder of Companhia Converge+ and co-director of Festival Raiz.
Kale Kamine is a Mozambican DJ and music producer making his mark in the Afro House scene with innovative productions and melodies inspired by artists such as Black Coffee.
Roberta Maimone is an Italian artist based in the Netherlands and founder of Memic Project, an interdisciplinary initiative that merges dance, theatricality, and visual and sound elements (MEM method)
Venâncio Bande Junior is a musician and he was born into a family of timbila music practitioners. His career includes numerous concert performances and participation in music residencies both in Mozambique and abroad.
Osvalda Nhacune is a Mozambican artist, singer and composer. Her debut album, titled “Hemba” is in the Guitonga language, spoken in the Inhambane province of Southern Mozambique.
credits
CROSSBEATS is the result of a collaborative effort between Italy, the Netherlands and Mozambique, currently under development by Forevergreen/Electropark (IT), Agape Mozambique (MZ), in collaboration with Amsterdam Fringe (NL), The Other Mezrab (NL), Teatro della Tosse (IT), Festival M’saho, Casa Provincial de Cultura de Inhambane and others. with the support of the Goethe-Institut and Expertise France, in partnership with Institut français, within the framework of the Africa–Europe Partnerships for Culture – Connect & Create programme funded by the European Union.
Crossbeats is a transdisciplinary performance where music, dance and storytelling move across cultures, bodies and generations. At its heart is the Timbila, a Mozambican musical instrument and dance traditional practice, brought into dialogue with electronic sounds, contemporary movement and performative storytelling.
Rather than treating tradition as something fixed or distant, Crossbeats explores it as living material: something that can be shared, transformed and reimagined through encounter. Artists from Mozambique, Italy and the Netherlands build a common stage language through rhythm, gesture, voice and sound, creating a collective performance shaped by exchange rather than single cultural perspectives.
Inspired by Lina Bo Bardi’s vision of folk traditions as artistic synthesis, Crossbeats looks at heritage through a contemporary lens. The result is a powerful and hybrid performance that connects memory and experimentation, local identities and global imaginaries, inviting audiences to experience tradition not as the past, but as a source for new creative possibilities.
About the makers
Laura Agnusdei is a saxophonist and electronic musician from Bologna, Italy. Her solo project explores the possibilities of electroacoustic composition, creating soundscapes within which the saxophone remains the main narrative voice.
Vincenzo Castellana | AcquAria is an interdisciplinary artist with a deep knowledge of percussion, developed through the exploration of diverse cultural traditions.
Idio Chichava is a Mozambican performer, choreographer and artistic director, founder of Companhia Converge+ and co-director of Festival Raiz.
Kale Kamine is a Mozambican DJ and music producer making his mark in the Afro House scene with innovative productions and melodies inspired by artists such as Black Coffee.
Roberta Maimone is an Italian artist based in the Netherlands and founder of Memic Project, an interdisciplinary initiative that merges dance, theatricality, and visual and sound elements (MEM method)
Venâncio Bande Junior is a musician and he was born into a family of timbila music practitioners. His career includes numerous concert performances and participation in music residencies both in Mozambique and abroad.
Osvalda Nhacune is a Mozambican artist, singer and composer. Her debut album, titled “Hemba” is in the Guitonga language, spoken in the Inhambane province of Southern Mozambique.
credits
CROSSBEATS is the result of a collaborative effort between Italy, the Netherlands and Mozambique, currently under development by Forevergreen/Electropark (IT), Agape Mozambique (MZ), in collaboration with Amsterdam Fringe (NL), The Other Mezrab (NL), Teatro della Tosse (IT), Festival M’saho, Casa Provincial de Cultura de Inhambane and others. with the support of the Goethe-Institut and Expertise France, in partnership with Institut français, within the framework of the Africa–Europe Partnerships for Culture – Connect & Create programme funded by the European Union.
