Introducing, The Illest, Talented Dance And Acrobatic Crew In Kenya

If you want to see best performing arts in Nairobi, the Sarakasi Trust is the place to be.

The all-round Sarakasi acrobats and dancers have performed locally, regionally and around the world and their shows range from traditional African to urban and contemporary and include, amongst others, ground acrobatics, juggling, balancing and aerial acts fused with unique dances and African and contemporary music. The shows are fast paced and spectacular leaving you in awe for more.

No matter where you come from, you will appreciate our artists performing acrobatic and dance shows including fusions thereof. Sarakasi’s in-house training and choreography team develops dance and acrobatic shows on client’s creative specifications as well as Sarakasi shows involving and fusing all performance disciplines.

Over the past ten years, Sarakasi has built a solid platform for developing East Africa’s natural performing talents into a world-class school for the performing arts. From its base at Sarakasi Dome in Nairobi, the Trust runs daily training programs for over 50 dancers and 30 acrobats. The dancers cover a range of disciplines that include traditional dance, cabaret, salsa, hip hop, street dance, jazz, and other modern contemporary dance, modern traditional dances, bollywood forms. Our acrobats are specialized in human pyramids, summersaults, balancing acts, hoops, limbo, fire acts, tight rope, pole/ pagan, clowning, aerial hoops, aerial silks, short trapeze and much more.

In 2005, our dance and acrobatic training program was rolled out to community centres, schools and children’s homes in Nairobi’s poorer slums – taking the joyous expression of dance and acrobatics to the young people in some of the city’s most downcast neighbourhoods.  Over time thousands of young people have either been directly trained or influenced by Sarakasi’s trainers since the program began, including homeless families, unemployed youths, and children working at dumpsites close to the training grounds.

Once these youngsters join Sarakasi’ formal training programs, they also benefit from open-door ‘classes’ in practical life skills such as reproductive health and income-generating activities. In Nairobi, the teenagers have become full-time ‘ambassadors’ in Sarakasi’s residential program, passing on their unique knowledge of the Oriental arts to other young Kenyans.

For more information on training, exchanges and performances, please contact the Sarakasi Trust on info@sarakasi.co.ke or pass by at the sarakasi Dome and ask for Rahim.