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Wake Forest University
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War Dance
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
6:00 pm
Room 145
Greene Hall
Wake Forest University
War Dance is a documentary about the Patongo Primary School's long journey to the Kampala Music Festival and the experiences, both good and bad, which informed them. War Dance received its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
In the village of Patongo, located deep in Uganda's war zone, a group of students, all of whom have been touched by the violence caused by the Lord's Resistance Army, struggle to rise above the violence and desperation that surrounds them. Each year, a student music festival in held in Kampala, Uganda's capital city, in which children from around the country compete for prizes in performing traditional music and dance. When the students of the Patongo Primary School are invited to compete for the first time, the children are both thrilled at their opportunity and determined to prove that in a place of violence and want, creativity and talent can still take root.
