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<p style="text-align: center;">Enjoy fluid and explosive movements depicting the experiences of young men of color to hypnotic, pulsating and exciting classical music. Expect an all-encompassing experience where every note and movement is palpable and the body becomes as much an instrument as the music itself.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;">Create4, a dance group led by Ibrah Silas Jackson, interacts excitingly with the modern-classical sounds of the DoelenEnsemble in "Body to Body. Lloydscompany guides the group in creating an intense program full of energy, rhythm and physical expression.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"></p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.27.3" _module_preset="default" custom_margin="-101px|auto|-12px|auto||" link_option_url="https://www.dedoelen.nl/nl/agenda/doelenensemble-lloydscompany-1cjn" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.27.3" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_button button_url="https://www.maastd.nl/nl/agenda/fresh-ibrah-kakande/?type=maaspodium" button_text="Get your ticket" button_alignment="center" _builder_version="4.27.3" _module_preset="default" custom_padding="0px||0px|||" global_colors_info="{}"][/et_pb_button][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.27.3" _module_preset="default" custom_padding="8px||1px|||" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" sticky_enabled="0"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.27.3" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.27.3" _module_preset="default" custom_margin="||-3px|||" custom_padding="||0px|||" global_colors_info="{}"]<p style="text-align: center;"> <strong>Create4<br /></strong>Choreographer, dancer and director Ibrah Silas Jackson (2000) forms Create 4 with three other young black dancers and creators: Juan Jose Markes, Angel Felix and Sirak Solomoon Areguy. With support from Lloydscompany, Jackson and the dancers created their first and short performance Until the Quiet Comes about the experiences of a young man of color. Recently, Create4 performed this as the first Dutch company during the Breakin' Convention Netherlands Tour. With this piece, he was also selected for the European co-creation project for hip-hop dance, Attitudes.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;">Jackson also participated in Back to the Lab at Breakin' Convention, where he previewed his new piece The Hereditary. In this piece, two dancers from Create4 personify the toxic masculinity we pass down from generation to generation. He screened this piece in 2024 at Breakin' Convention in London and in 2025 at the MAASPodium and the Afrovibes Festival.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;">For Theater aan de Rijn's VIERxVIER project, he and Create4 created the piece Unravel Threads about the effects of peer pressure on young people.</p>

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