Serge Aimé Coulibaly - Kalakuta Republic EN pdf

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KALAKUTA REPUBLIK
A piece for 7 performers and a percussionnist-DJ
(creation February 2017)
Serge Aimé Coulibaly | Faso Danse Théâtre
DISTRIBUTION
Concept & Chorégraphie
Serge Aimé Coulibaly
Dramaturgie
Sara Vanderieck
DJ & Musicien
Yvan Talbot
Assistant à la chorégraphie
Sayouba Sigué
Création & Interprétation
Antonia Naouele, Marion Alzieu, Adonis Nébié, Sayouba Sigué, Serge Aimé
Coulibaly, Ahmed Soura, Ida Faho
Scénographie & costumes
Catherine Cosme
Création lumière
Hermann Coulibaly
Création son & musique additionnelle
Sam Serruys
Vidéo
Eve Martin
Production : Halles de Schaerbeek & Faso Danse Théâtre
Production déléguée : Halles de Schaerbeek
Coproduction en cours, dont confirmées : Maison de la Danse (Lyon,
France), Le Tarmac - La scène internationale francophone (Paris, France),
Torinodanza (Turin, Italie), Ankata (Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso), Les
Récréâtrales (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), De Grote Post (Ostende,
Belgique), Festival Africologne (Cologne, Allemagne).
Diffusion : Frans Brood Productions.
TOURNÉE 2017
Halles de Schaerbeek (Bruxelles - Belgique): 15, 16 et 17 février
De Grote Post (Ostende - Belgique) : 18 février
Maison de la Danse (Lyon - France) : 10 et 11 mars
Africologne (Cologne - Allemagne) : juin 2017
KALAKUTA REPUBLIK
Kalakuta Republik is a choreography project based on the music of Fela Kuti
and freely inspired by his life.
«...when I was first put in jail, the name of my prison cell
was ‘Kalakuta’, and Republik? I wanted to identify myself
with someone who didn’t agree with the Federal Republik of
Nigeria... I was in non-agreement. »
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Fela is a completely unique artist: a huge desire for freedom, a sulfurous lifestyle,
political conscience engraved in his body and his absolutely original musicality,
born form the mixing of Africa and the Occident. His years spent in London,
and then the United States allowed him to take the step back necessary to reach
a fine understanding of the African continent and the political chess game that
was really being played. Visionary, his ideas and his art are still today radically
modern and completely resonate with current affairs.
Fela Anikulapo Kuti is the starting point of this
choreographic creation. The character
captivates and seduces, his music
is still one the most popular in the world.
He is my inspiration, the epitome of what an artist should be in an African
context to tackle the role and place of an artist in today’s society, to talk about
our humanity in a word that change quickly.
THE ENGAGEMENT
Everything in Fela is a rejection of ignorance, stupidity, seclusion, cynicism and
abdication; his controversial life choices, his music that, far from soothing and
putting to sleep the population, targets, to the contrary, the awakening of citizen’s
consciousness, his innovative thought process and his festive and profound way
to deliver it.
Bullhorn of a whole generation, using the stage as a forum, imprisoned numerous
times for his sarcastic and distinct political positioning, Fela is real role model
for commitment to his country and his art.
Fela’s music takes you far away; some thirty minutes long songs, with a complex
and yet simple composition, allows you to hear the result of his anchoring to the
African soil, fed by his training in the heart of London’s jazz club: afrobeat is
not only the search for a particular artistic and personal expression, it is also the
banner for his conception of Africa, the emotional summary of his thoughts on
politics and the army. A big openness to the world, a vigorous commitment in his
words, this music is a rich and profound source of inspiration.
« I just want to do my part and leave... Not for
what they’re going to remember you for, but for
what you believe in as a man. »
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
PROSPECTIVE THINKING
THE SUBJECT
LOCATIONS
Fela’s personality, his political commitment in Nigeria, contrasted country
with a rich soil, widely coveted, and a galloping misery, the lively modernity
of his work are ideal starting points for a larger questioning.
The creation will take place in two successive spaces:
What is an artist’s place in society? What is the responsibility for the one that
through his creation carries a committed voice?
The public will find the usual scenic space to witness the actual creation.
How, in a world that changes rapidly and creates fear and turning on oneself,
do you bring about an opening of consciousness to what’s different?
MUSIC
Fela’s musical work offers to choreographers and dancers multiple leads to
explore. His strength, blending beauty and commitment, allows for varied and
expressive developments, ranging from a violent register, tearing and urgency
to a more fragile and harmonious register.
Yvan Talbot, expert in this music, can play with it as much as he wants and
distort it to bring out all its singularity.
ESTHETIC
Fela and his company used a lot of body and face makeup; warrior paints,
belonging to a ground and its tribe? Or simply wishing for a new start, a willingness to reinvent a new man for the possibility of another future.
The use of colors on the body will be the echo of that and also evoke the Holi
celebration in India, celebration of the spring equinox and the momentary liberation of the usually submissive castes
- The stage: A place of poetry and dream.
- Le Maquis des Utopies : a participatory reflection on society.
After a short break the hall of the theatre will be transformed, with video projectors, into an evocation of Fela’s Shrine, this bar where music and dance
were a pretense for free and fruitful dialogues. This café will welcome surprise
guests, artists coming to speak about their art, suggesting themes to reflect on,
it could be a place for dialogue open to the public and it will give a chance to
see original choreographic creations never seen before.
L’ÉQUIPE
SERGE AIME COULIBALY
Serge Aimé Coulibaly, a Burkinabe dancer and choreographer trained with FFEREN Company directed by Amadou Bourou, with which he toured for eight years in Africa and Europe, he also proved
himself by choreographing for the company the opening performance of the African Cup of football
(CAN) in Burkina Faso in 1998, then the opening performance of the FESPACO (Ouagadougou Pan
African film festival) in 1999.
In 2002, he founded his own company, the FASO DANSE THEATRE, and signed his first solo: “Minimini”. That same year, he joined the famous Flemish company BALLETS C DE LA B, where he
successively interpreted the shows “Wolf”, staged by Alain Platel, then “Tempus Fugit” by Sidi Larbi
Cherkaoui, two shows that were met by a tremendous success and scoured European theaters and
operas until 2006.
In 2004 invited by the Australian company MAARUGEKU, he carried out a work of research and
comparison of traditional aboriginal dances and contemporary dance and choreographed in 2008 the
show “Burning Daylight”.
Simultaneously, Serge Aimé Coulibaly developed his own projects within the FASO DANSE THEATRE Company. He choreographed and interpreted the piece “Et
demain…” selected as part of the emergence of Lille as the European capital of culture, then in 2006, and the show “A benguer” presented in prestigious European
dance festivals.
In 2007, invited by the LIVERPOOL CULTURE COMPANY and in collaboration with the Australian stage director Rachael Swain, he choreographed the hip hop
show “Sugar”, as part of the 2008 Liverpool-European capital of culture. FASO DANSE THEATRE, enriched itself in 2007 with the solo “Quand j’étais révolutionnaire” for which Serge Aimé Coulibaly wrote the text, staged and choreographed.
In April 2008 he created “J’ai perdu mon français” in collaboration with the indian choreographer and dancer Kalpana Raghuraman, an order placed by LES SUBSISTANCES of Lyon for the Ca tchatche festival. The same year, he created “Babema”, FASO DANSE THEATRE Company’s new show on an international tour.
In 2009 he was invited to the national choreographic center of Roubaix Nord Pas de Calais (Carolyn Carlson) to direct the “Mappamonde” project, choreography with
45 amateur dancers for a unique performance at the Roubaix city hall.
On the crest of his popularity, Serge Aimé was solicited for the 2010 Nuit des Musés. FASO DANSE THEATRE also presented “Fitry” at the Musée de la Piscine in
Roubaix. Then, the company was invited to several African countries to celebrate the Independences Fifth’s anniversary with “Babemba” also in Brussels at the Palais
des Beaux-Arts for which Serge Aimé created “En attendant l’indépendance”.
In 2011 he reunited with Alain Platel and the BALLETS C DE LA B to create the opera “C(H)OEURS” at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Then created the solo Fadjiri at
the Tarmac in Paris and started collaborating with the stage director Moise Touré, on Aurélia Steiner and Maladie de la mort by Marguerite Duras.
Over his different creations, Serge Aimé Coulibaly learned to develop a contemporary original artistic voice, rich, strong, anchored in African culture and articulated
around strong themes, where dance is mostly feeling. His sincerity, his political and historic questioning, made him a committed choreographer. In 2014 Serge Aimé
Coulibaly created ANKATA, international research and creation of performance arts laboratory, in his native city Bobo Dioulasso and the show “Nuit Blanche à
Ouagadougou” in Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) which he presented in 2015 in Belgium, France, Senegal and Germany.
SAYOUBA SIGUE
After a childhood spent in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Sigué Sayouba came back to Burkina for high school and entered the cultural and artistic scene in Ouagadougou. He is trained in traditional and contemporary dances.
Discovered in 2001 by a young Burkinabe choreographer Souleymane Porgo, he joined his company (Téguérer)
and was initiated to “contemporary” dance and “afro-contemporary” dance. He also benefited from training by
several other choreographers with different styles and from different origins. That is how dance, went from being
an extra-curricular activity, to progressively becoming a passion that he chose today to make his work.
He took part in tens of creations with big names in the dance world in Africa such as Irène Tassembédo (in
Souffles, Carmen Falinga Awa and Le sacre du tempo), Serge Aimé Coulibaly (in A Benguer et Babemba). Today
he lives in Lyon (France) and put together his own company.
AHMED SOURA
Born in Banfora in Burkina Faso, dancer (Break dance and pop) and self-taught acrobat until the age of 20, Ahmed
was trained at the National Institute of Artistic and Cultural Training in Burkina Faso and at the National Choreographic Center in Montpellier from 2003 to 2007. Then Ahmed joined Irène TASSEMBEDO’s Burkinabe Company for
five years with tours in Africa and Europe.
In 2010, Ahmed Soura danced and played in Christoph Schlingensief’s opera “Via Intollérenza II” (1st Price in 2011
for staging at Treffen Theater in Berlin). As soon as 2012, he joined the opera Ballet Deutche Oper Berlin with “Verdi
Requiem”, “Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen” and “Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern” and won the FAUST
price in 2014. During the year 2014, he collaborated with the Swiss company (Berne) Pink Mama Theatre with a
2015 tour in Poland. Simultanuously he created KORO/Company Ahme Soura in Burkina Faso to develop his own
choreographic writing and create very appreciated solos “A to”, “Rien ne m’appartient”, ‘Ecrasement 100Sens”, “En
opposition avec moi” (3rd place price in dance at the Internationalen Tanz-Theater Festival- Stuttgart 2011), “166” 2nd place at Need to Dance 2013. He often runs
contemporary and traditional dance internships in Burkina Faso, Germany, France, Switzerland, Brazil,…
ANTONIA NAOUELE
Antonia Naouele young Cameroonian performer and dancer is originally traditional dance enthusiast, she later
specialized in urban dances and afro urban dances.
As early as 2011, Antonia trained in contemporary dance with Abbé Simon’s company, the choreographers Salia
Sanou, Michel Ndjongui, Merlin Nyankam, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Aida C.Diaz, Farid Berki, and in stepping with
the group SOUL STEP (USA)
Simultaneously, she is a dancer performer with the hip hop group FLOOR ART CREW, and the SOLDIERS X
Company, in the show “A WINE” by Hyacinthe TOBIO. Those shows took her on tour in Africa.
MARION ALZIEU
Very young Marion was very keen on all forms of dance. She started with hip-hop, classical dance, modern dance,
later, she discovered contemporary dance from Peter Mika, Olga Cobos and Luc Jacobs.
From 2008 to 2010, she followed Coline’s professional training in Istres, where she met several invited choreographers and danced Emanuel Gat, Lisi Esteras, Shlomi Tuizer, Mathilde Monnier, Salia Sanou and others’s repertoire. At the end of her training, she joined Emanuel Gat’s and Jasmin Vardimon’s companies, in London, and
worked at the Royal Opera House.
Ever so curious and eager to gain new experiences, she pursued a professional training at the CDC la Termitière
(Burkina Faso) and met several African choreographers. Upon her return from France, Marion joined the “Mouvements Perpetuels” Company headed by Salia Sanou. On top of beign a performer in several plays, she assisted
Salia in creations for children and amateur dancers. She also worked, since 2012, at Hervé Chaussard’s company (The Will Corporation), Amala Dianor’s Company (Kaplan) and Serge Aimé Coulibaly’s company (Faso Danse Theatre).
Simultaneously with his performer status, she looked for her own path in choreography. In 2013, she created a duo “En terre d’attente” for the OIDF Festival (Burkina) directed by Irène Tassembedo. In 2014, she created the solo “Ceci n’est pas une femme blanche” and at the same time put together her own company: MA
ADONIS NEBIÉ
Born in 1981 in Ivory Coast, Adonis Nébié was trained at Germaine Acogny’s Ecole des Sables in Senegal.
He is a dancer and choreographer of the Teguerer-dance company in Burkina Faso and takes part in some workshops for the charity organization Eolo. He collaborated with numerous choreographers like Irène Tassembedo,
Vera Sander, Serge Aimé Coulibaly on an international level.
He created and performed two solos during a residency in Dakar, in Aix-en-Provence at the Pavillon Noir (Ballet
Prejlocaj) in 2013 and 2015.
IDA FAHO
Ida was born in 1990 and started, very young, her training in performance art in 2003.She studied theater then
dance and joined the EDIT school of dance in 2009.
She danced regularly with the Tassembedo Company while developing her own projects and training with other
choreographers, in Africa, at the Ecole des Sables, but also in Europe, at the Pavillon Noir D’Angelin Preljocaj.
Her dance is nourished by all her encounters and Ida succeeded in harmoniously marrying strong motions, an
electric presence with a lot poise, grace and sensuality.
YVAN TALBOT
For over 20 years, this percussionist is animated by his passion for West African traditional music. Attracted to the
practice of atypical and rare musical instruments like the bolon (3 strings harp lute), the Baala drums from forestry
Guinea or the n’goni Bissa from Burkina Faso, he was also initiated to splitting of traditional instruments.
This strong African trace brought Yvan Talbot to link worlds in music, by collaborating with musicians and choreographers. That is how he met Julie Dossavi’s company for which he became the musical director in 2002. With that
artistic team, he signed and co-directed the music for different plays.
In 2010, he collaborated with Bouba and realized the original music for the choreographic duo “murmures”.
On top of his creative activities, he regularly joined different training programs, as much with young audiences as
with musicians in the process of becoming professionals.
2015
• 16, 17/12 « Simply the Best » Concours de Solo – Bobo Dioulasso
(Burkina Faso)
• 30 Nov >11 Décembre «Workshop » – Niamey (Niger)
• 20, 21, 22/11 «Gloed » De Grote Post – Ostende (Belgique)
• 09 > 18/11 «Gloed» residence de création – Ostende (Belgique)
• 2, 3/11 «Maladie de la mort» avec les Inachevés - Annecy (France)
• 22 > 24/10 « Cut the Sky» avec Marrugeku - KVS -Bruxelles (Belgique)
• 20/10 «Cut the Sky» avec Marrugeku – Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
• 14, 15/10 «Cut the Sky» avec Marrugeku – Ludwighaven (Allemagne)
• 9/10 «Double J(e)u» – Lisbonne (Portugal)
• 1 > 20/09« Gloed » residence de création – Ostende (Belgique)
• 17, 18/08 « workshop « - Ankata – Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)
• 8, 9, 10/07 « Gloed » residence de création- Ostende (Belgique)
• 20/06 «Fadjiri» au Festival Africologne à Cologne (Allemagne)
• 19/06 «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» à Tanzhaus nrw – Dusseldorf
(Allemagne)
• 17, 18/06 «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» au Festival Africologne à
Cologne (Allemagne)
• 8/06 «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» à l’Institut Français de Dakar
(Sénégal)
• 6/06 «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» au Festival Duo-Solo à Saint
Louis – (Sénégal)
•25 > 30/05 «Workshop» (Coaching project) – Bamako (Mali)
• 11 > 22/05 «Workshop» (Coaching project) à Yaoundé (Cameroun)
• 1/05 «Workshop» – Philadelphia ( USA)
• 13 > 17/04 «Workshop» à Carvin (France)
• 11/04 «Maladie de la mort» avec les Inachevés, Institut français de
Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)
• 4/04 «Maladie de la mort » avec les Inachevés, Institut français de
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
• 1, 2/04 «Workshop» – conférence à Hong Kong (Chine)
• 30, 31/03 «Workshop» – conférence à Hong Kong (Chine)
• 24, 25, 26, 27, 28/03 «Maladie de la mort» avec les Inachevés, MC2
-Greno- ble- (France)
• 1/03 «Cut the Sky» avec Marrugeku – Perth- (Australie)
• 28/02 «Cut the Sky» avec Marrugeku – Perth – (Australie)
• 27/02 Première «Cut the Sky» avec Marrugeku – Perth – (Australie)
• 23, 24/02 «Workshop» aux Hivernales d’Avignon – ( France)
• 22/02 «Fadjiri» aux Hivernales d’Avignon – Avignon (France)
• 14 > 17/01 «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» au Tarmac – Paris (France)
• 10/01 «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» à De Grote Post – Ostende
(Belgique)
2014
• 8 > 13/12 Coaching chorégraphique -Yaoundé- (Cameroun)
• 5/12 «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» – Dialogue de Corps Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
• 17 > 29/11 «Workshop» à Gnagamix – Bamako (Mali)
• 7/11 «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» à L’Institut Français - Bobo
Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)
• 28, 29/10 «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» aux Récréatrales –
Ouagadougou(Burkina Faso)
• 25/10 «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» aux Récréatrales –
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
• 24/10 Première «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» aux Récréatrales –
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
• 8 > 25/10 Résidence «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» - Ouagadougou
(Burkina Faso)
• 4/10 «Quand je danse, je parle aussi et…» - Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina
Faso)
• 15/09 au 06/10 Résidence «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» - Bobo
Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)
•13/09 «Quand je danse je parle aussi et…» - Lumumbashi (RDC)
• 4/07 «Fadjiri», Le Manège MONS (Belgique)
• 13/06 «Conférence dansée» (La danse Contemporaine en Afrique)
Festival Duo-Solo Saint Louis (Sénégal)
• 2 > 19/06 «Workshop» (Coaching Jeunes Créateurs)- Dakar (Sénégal)
• 22/04 au 27/05 «Cut the Sky» - Broome (Australie)
• 21 au 26/04 «Workshop» - Luanda (Angola)
• 27/03 «Fadjiri», De Grote Post – Ostende (Belgique)
• 3/03 «Fadjiri» - MASA - Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)
• 17/03 au 1/03 Résidence «Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou» – Dakar
(Sénégal)
• 15/02 «Quand je danse, je parle aussi et…» Institut Français -Yaoundé
(Cameroun)