Barbara Panther's journey from Rwandan refugee to Berlin electro diva

Choreography with Carolyn Carlson taught her how to be 'an energy', and Matthew Herbert gave her songs 'roots', but Barbara Panther's aggressive tribal pop is brilliantly hers aloneMy hour with Barbara Panther is coming to an end and I ask her, prompted by some of the lyrics on her excellent eponymous debut album, whether she's religious. What follows is a seven-minute monologue that centres around a trip to Rome in 2000, during which Panther took a dip in the sea only to have a panic attack pro...

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