My Dance
Nora Amin liberates the so-called belly dance from the sediments of history: she inverts the voyeuristic and exoticized perspective into a perspective of one’s own body and history, allowing the audience a new view. My Dance is an attempt to shift power, a reflection on female sexuality, the erotic self, and patriarchal oppression, as well […]
*The Sys-[tem]*
*The Sys-[tem]* is the stripping of choreographic techniques of their spectacular dimensions to keep only the raw movements in order to slide from a phrase formulation to another dance style with virtuosity (hip hop, Neoclassical, contemporary, afro-contemporary…), in order to be able to retrace the story of a 15 years old girl in the Alabama of […]
My Path
In this piece, the choreographer blows himself and expresses a brutal agitation. “My Path”. It is the human being in the grip of an existential crisis of orientation. It is the torment, the inner tragedy of setting out on the right path in life, with its disappointments, its resentments. But above all, “My Path”” is […]
Diekpo
This neo-African dance production is a creative process centred on a ritual practice known as “Dipo” from Krobo land, located in eastern Ghana. It is a female rite of passage. The choreography examines its rituals, looks at its cultural meanings and also negative effects from a post-colonial, feminist perspective. It is worth taking a look […]
next…II (Mali/Island)
In the 3-channel installation next…II (Mali/Iceland), two dance artists in the diaspora enter into a dialogue through performative video letters; Charmene Pang and Kettly Noël. Kettly Noël, a Haitian, has built one of the most important dance centres in West Africa for over 20 years in Bamako. Charmene Pang, born in Geneva and raised in […]
Agbeto
“Agbeto” is a dance theatre, showing the naked truth of Human where identity, Power, Comic contradictions and deliberate disorder are embraced in a performance. Concept /Choreography: Issiaka Moussa Performer: Issiaka Moussa Photo: Muni Mum Duration: 30min
Present Body 2
In the moment of improvisation, a special, almost magical presence of the body emerges. Anything seems possible, even identity breaks free of its fixed structures and bonds and allows itself to be reinvented every moment. With music and dance, all participants weave their own experiences and memories into a common whole that remains in constant […]
Eu Mulher
„Eu Mulher” was created by Gaya Dandara (Brazil), in collaboration with the project “Pulse” At The “Internationale Tanzmesse NRW”, of the artist Peter Krauss (Germany). For this project Gaya Dandara offers a drama, reflecting the several issues, that cross the female body, when it comes across in public or private spaces. Source of this work […]
Try Again
I need to clean myself fully every day because of culpability and the use of smartphone, computer and electronic object to be part of this system. I AM KONGO COLTAN COBALT is my Power and my Criptonit , PURIFICATION IS THE KEYS! Concept /Choreography: Exocé Kasongo Performer: Exocé Kasongo Duration: 10 min Photo: Emeka
ResisTanzen
“ResisDance” is a multidisciplinary solo Piece with Live-music, theatre, poetry and different styles of dances around the topic of Resistance at the sociopolitical level. “ResisDance” is a journey through time and space, through fragments of history, key events, specifics moments, little known or forgotten characters of the Resistance to imperialism and colonialism. The actor, in […]