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Artists
Rufus Mufasa is a pioneering participatory artist, literary activist, poet, rapper, singer songwriter, theater maker, and last but not least, Mother. From Barbican Fellow to the first Future Generations Act Poet in Residence, Rufus also works internationally, securing literary residencies from Hay Literature Festival to Sweden, Finland, Indonesian, and most recently Zimbabwe, but always returns to People Speak Up in Llanelli, Wales, promoting hip hop education, performance poetry and intergenerational development and was recently appointed their Poet on Prescription. A Hull ’19 artist in conjunction with BBC Contains Strong Language, her full poetry collection titled Flashbacks and Flowers drops soon with Indigo Dreams. Rufus’ work explores motherhood, the spirituality of ancestry, class, climate chaos, and transgenerational/trapped trauma.
Camille Giraudeau graduated from Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2011, before joining National Dance Company Wales as an apprentice. In 2012 she joined the company as a full time member touring nationally and internationally, performing works by Christopher Bruce, Alexander Ekman, Johan Inger, Marcos Morau, Angelin Prejlocaj, Roy Asaf and Caroline Finn among many others. In 2015 Camille participated in the Kerry Nichols Mentoring programme which was invaluable to the development of my professional training. She left National Dance Company Wales in Dec 2017 to develop herself as an independent artist, working with choreographers Eleesha Drennan, Alexander Whitley, John Ross, Jack Philp, Matteo Marfoglia and guesting with NDCWales. Camille has Since re-joined the company as a full time member and continue to enjoy company life.
Poem
Mae’r Dŵr yn Dal Lle/resurrect dormant DNA
Dime Dime Dime Hen Plant Bach
Salade de fruits, Jolie Jolie Jolie
Rwy’n addo teyrngarwch i gyfraith llên
Y Fenyw Ddwyfol
Tyrd â chwedlau hud menywod gwyllt i mewn
i bob dameg, odl a rhythm
cyfarwydda derwydd pob llwyth
gyda synnwyr trydydd-llygad trydydd-clust
Dea Matrona/Modron, offrymau o ffrwythau a blodau
Galw ar Kali, Hestia
Hekate, Atlanta
Tiamot, Tara
Bastet, Gaia
Ishtar-Ostara-Inana
Isis, Freya
Pravati, Yemaya
Door-Dwar-Drws-Durga
Mesuline o’r ffynhonnau a’r afonydd
Bormana, Damona
Mari Magdala wrth y drych
Cadw fy nghroes copr
Orgome, Prana…
rhai dyddiau byddi di’n dawnsio gyda cholomennod
rhai dyddiau byddi di’n galw ar y brain
rhai nosweithiau byddi di’n ymdrochi mewn halwynau
rhai nosweithiau byddi di’n rhedeg gyda bleiddiaid
mae’r hynafiaid yn ymweld wrth i’r cyfnos gordeddu
Mae’r Dŵr yn Dal Lle/resurrect dormant DNA
Dime Dime Dime Hen Plant Bach
Salade de fruits, Jolie Jolie Jolie
I pledge allegiance to the law of lore
Of the Divine Feminine
Bring Wild Woman Magik Matter in
To every riddle, rhyme & rhythm
Direct every tribes Scribe
With third-eye-third-ear listening
Dea Matrona/Modron, offerings of fruit & flower
Call on Kali, Hestia
Hekate, Atlanta
Tiamot, Tara
Bastet, Gaia
Ishtar-Ostara-Inana
Isis, Freya
Pravati, Yemaya
Door-Dwar-Drws-Durga
Mesuline of the wells & rivers
Bormana, Damona
Mary of Magdala at the mirror
Keep my cross copper
Orgome, Prana…
Some days you will dance with doves
Some days you will call on crows
Some nights you will bathe in salts
Some nights you will run with wolves
The ancestors visit at the twist of twilight
Micro-Macro-Magik/Maiden-Mother-Crone
Creatrix – Know Thyself!
Crown me in kapala made of Moon
Dance delirious in celestial simplicity
Tap-in to Source, Reboot
Apple-Afal-Pomme
Red-Coch-Rouge
This is the sound of Etifeddiaeth
Language is mother-tongue, come
Feast on the fruits…
Dime Dime Dime Hen Plant Bach
Salade de fruits, Jolie Jolie Jolie
Rufus Mufasa