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Filmed performances
Yewa, eau sublime
Choreography
Director
Company
Collection
Year of production
1995
Year of creation
1994
A creation for 6 dancers and four musicians, the confrontation of traditional and contemporary African dances. Subjugated by the West, young African city dwellers are exhausted and lose themselves in a sterile and violent story, without a past or a future. These bodies flee from each other, ignore each other, break apart and straighten up, driven by a force from the depths of time. Provoked by YEWA, they remember the forgotten rhythm, the vital breath. Then another dance takes shape, wavy, flexible, where the bodies finally accept each other …
Source: Program of the 1994 Dance Biennale
Choreography
Director
Company
Collection
Year of production
1995
Year of creation
1994
Lights
Eric Veenstra
Original score
Arona Ndiaye, Etienne Schwarcz
Production of video work
Biennale de la danse – Charles Picq, 1994
Production of choreographic work
Biennale de la danse 1994, Fondation Beaumarchais, Wolfgang von Wangenheim
Other
Togoun Servais Acogny
