Yuck
Miranda

Awardee

Country

Mozambique

Yuck Miranda promotes gender equality through dance.

Themes
Gender equality
Sexual / queer expression
Disciplines
Dance
Performance
Theatre
Awards
SEED Award 2021

Profile

Yuck Miranda is an actor and performer from Mozambique, interested in music, dancing and visual arts. He has a graduate degree in Theatre from the Eduardo Mondlane University and in 2017 took part in the AfriQueer project in Mozambique and South Africa. His performance “Zita”, about a transwoman from northern Mozambique, was featured in Kinani Festival 2019. Since the 2020 pandemic, his research has been focused on queer art created in Africa by Africans.