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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

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