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Interview de Marcel Gbeffa
(Extrait)
On the occasion of the event « Dansons Maintenant ! » which it organized in 2011, 2012 and 2015, in Cotonou in Benin, the Fondation Zinsou conducted filmed interviews with guest artists and choreographers.
Invited for the second edition, 2012, with his performance Noir Mirage, the beninese dancer and choreographer Marcel Gbeffa specifies in this interview’s extract his fields of choreographic exploration. Then, he underlines the structural deficiencies and the cultural obstacles in the development of contemporary creation on the African continent, despite the talent of many artists, and nevertheless observes, at the dawn of the 2010s, a certain evolution.
Interview conducted by Aurélie Lecomte, August 10, 2012, in Cotonou.
Filmed by Stéphane Agbessi-Loko.
The deposit of the video archives of “Dansons maintenant !”, belonging to Fondation Zinsou was made possible thanks to the Centre National de la Danse Research award in dance, granted in 2021 to Dr Anne Décoret-Ahiha for her research project “Consolidation of the African choreographic field: focus on Benin” and with the kind permission of the artists.
