John Otieno (Rapasa Ulawe) lives in Nairobi, where he studied dance at Dance Forum Nairobi. Rapasa is a performance artist and musician specializing in traditional string instruments (Nyatiti and Adung‘). He has participated in various choreography and dance workshops and dance productions in Kenya, East Africa and outside Africa. In 2010, he participated in Visa 2 Dance Festival, Tanzania (Story ya pili), Conversation in Silence and an exhibition of memoirs at Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, with the support of Goethe Institute Kenya. In 2011, Rapasa’s solo piece Ligala was featured at the Nairobi Festival of Solos and Duets. At the Lights Festival at Oshwal Centre Nairobi, he served as assistant choreographer and worked mostly with children. He was at Dance Laboratories in Nairobi in 2013 with his solo piece Sounds. He is the founder and leader of Puye-Africa, an acoustic band based in Nairobi.