Every morning, they go to work. Walking itself is work. They all walk—some-where: in Nairobi to the matatu bus (shared minibus taxi), in Berlin to the subway station. Streams of people, dense flows of movement, carving their way through the urban jungle day after day.
Many try to avoid walking altogether, relocating their workplaces closer to home or creating new working arrangements in order to shorten or escape the daily commute.
The Kenyan-German dance production Jua Kali by Jared Onyango and Lea Pischke explores the everyday journeys of people in Nairobi and Berlin. It asks how political and urban conditions shape and transform such a fundamental human movement.
In Jua Kali, locomotion becomes a universal motif—caught between togetherness and solitude within the crowd.