Nadia Beugré
Épique ! (pour Yikakou)
novembernov 7 – 8
decemberdec 2 – 5
© Werner Strouven RhoK ©
© Werner Strouven RhoK ©
© Werner Strouven RhoK ©
Friday november 7
20h30
Saturday november 8
18h
Tuesday december 2
20h
Wednesday december 3
20h
Thursday december 4
20h
Friday december 5
20h
Artistic direction and interpretation Nadia Beugré. Performance and live music Salimata Diabate (percussion, balafon), Charlotte Dali (voice, percussion). Dramaturgy Kader Lassina Touré. Set design Jean-Christophe Lanquetin. Lighting Paulin Ouedraogo.
Production Libr'Arts (Virginie Dupray)
Coproduction Festival Montpellier Danse ; Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels) ; Charleroi danse - Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles ; Festival d'Automne à Paris ; CCN de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre de l'accueil-studio - ministère de la Culture ; Theater Freiburg ; ICI - CCN Montpellier-Occitanie
With the support of Drac Occitanie - ministère de la Culture
The Festival d'Automne à Paris is co-producer of this show, presenting it in co-production with Théâtre Silvia Monfort and Théâtre 13.
Nadia Beugré undertakes a solitary journey to Yikakou, her childhood village in the Ivory Coast that has since disappeared, its so-called cursed lands being overrun by the forest. In this new piece, ten years after Quartiers libres, her first solo piece to be presented at the Festival d'Automne, she mixes collective memory with those of an intimate kind.
Throughout her journey, the choreographer and performer goes in search of female figures that are unique. One such figure is the female ancestor who gave her name to her, Gbahihonon, "a woman who says what she sees". Or the figure of Dô-Kamissa, from the epic of Sundiata, an aging woman who, after being wronged by her brother, turns into a buffalo in order to destroy his land. Posing as a female oracle, she skilfully orchestrates the wedding of the king and Sogolon Kandé, the hunchbacked woman. The choreographer and performer embodies these figures in a powerful solo, in which she weaves a link between her own history and those of her ancestors. Inhabited by the voices of the past, she shares the stage with two singer-musicians that echo and testify to her story. Like Filles-Pétroles and Prophétique (on est déjà né.es), presented in 2023 during the Focus dedicated to her, this solo once again takes us to the Ivory Coast. In this work, Nadia Beugré intertwines her childhood and heritage with collective narratives.
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