In this article, we will provide a growing list of performing arts companies/organizations working in Rwanda. If yours or the one you know is not listed, please send the details (company name, URL, a short description and logo) to lakhpin919@gmail.com
We will review it and add to the list:
- Mashirika Performing Arts is a performing group and a pioneering professional company in Rwanda that was started by students of music, dance and drama at Makerere University Kampala in July 1997, with Hope Azeda as a leading founder member, who later moved to Rwanda in 1998.
- Ishyo Arts Centre is a platform for artists, art lovers, cultural professionals, entrepreneurs and anyone who is passionate about art. This successful non-governmental organization operates locally and internationally and brings cultural practitioners together to make traditional and contemporary culture available to all. Ishyo also develops and supports innovative artists, projects and training programs mainly in literature, dance, music, poetry and theatre.
- Rwanda Arts Initiative is a Platform gathering Rwandan artists and aiming at professionalization of art industry.
- Amizero Kompagnie a Rwandan dance, theatre and performance company based in Kigali, Rwanda. Amizero originated at the University Centre for Arts and Drama at the University of Rwanda, Butare in 2005 as Rwanda’s first professional contemporary dance company.
- Rwanda Professional Dreamers (RPD) is a space created to initiate, promote and support innovative, challenging and creative artistic work in Rwanda.
- Niyo Cultural Centre teaches traditional Rwandan drumming and dance to impoverished children. They give them the confidence and inspiration to use their skills to earn money for their own education, medical expenses and day-to-day living.
- Kaami Arts Organization was founded in January 2013, by artists spanned in different fields in Music, Dance, Theater, Painting, cinema and photography, who joined hands to enlighten the skills, the knowledge and the love of art to the people while using it as a channel for social change.
- Ingeri Arts is an organization founded by Jean-Paul Ingabire and Emmanuel Muhire in 2013 to enhance and promote artistic education, cultural values and the well-being of the community through performing arts, mainly working with children and young audiences.
- Leaf International-Rwanda founded in 2006 located in Kigali (also known as Intore Cultural Troupe)
- Kwanda Art Foundation seeks to establish a solid knowledge-base for all members and interested artists in the field of visual multi-media and performance art.
- Lakhtrem founded in 2014, is a creative agency that works at the intersection of creative arts and digital marketing approaches recognizing the value of the arts and makers.
