Vagabundus is a performance in which 13 performers constantly dance and sing a musical repertoire traditional and contemporary Mozambican, on the basis of gospel and baroque motives.
Mozambican choreographer Idio Chichava shows migration through the prism of the body. Often considered voluntary or forced, it is an invisible wave, a human flow. The migrant is the nomad of today, the settler, the discoverer, but also the wanderer. To construct the choreography, he draws inspiration from the dance ritual of the Makonde people in Mozambique, who through the fusion of dance and song supports the expression of a global body. According to Chichava, only the body that dances and sings

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Idio Chichava is a Mozambican dancer, choreographer and artistic director. In 2000 he began dancing in a traditional dance group, then he initially came into contact with contemporary dance through Culturarte, the first contemporary dance company in Mozambique and Danças na Cidade. During a stay in Belgium, he attended courses at the School of Parts. Years later, he joined the Kublai Khan investigations company in France. After a long career in France, he returned to his hometown, Maputo, where he founded the company Converge+ and began working actively to promote creative exchange and dance lessons for communities and presentation of performances in public spaces. His contributions to multidisciplinary productions and creative collaborations have focused on opening spaces in which everyone can explore their inner world and coexistence with other people. Chichava, assistant curator of the multidisciplinary platform KINANI and curator of Dance Week- 2022, is also one of the producers of the Traditional Music Festival-Raíz in Maputo. Among his individual projects are the pieces Veridicidade, Xithukulumukumba, Xiquelene, Inkino, Intolerância, Sentido Único, Yellow Fat Chaos!, as well as presentations in public spaces, museums,
galleries and more.
As a dancer and choreographer, he has worked with several artists, including Panaibra Gabriel, Lia Rodrigues, Horacio Macuacua, Cristina Moura, Thomas Hauert, David Zambrano, Frank Micheletti, Boyzie Cekwana, Qudus Onikeku, Marcel Gbefa, Djodjo Kasadi, Faustin Lienkula et al. He Participated in artistic residencies and tours in more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. Awarded with the French State Diploma, Chichava lives between Mozambique and France, where he has collaborated in the choreography of the French company Kubilai Khan Investigations since 2005.

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The performance on 1 June is part of the opening ceremony of the festival.