AFRICAN CYCLE

Salia SANOU and Seydou BORO

Dramane DIABATE (percussions)

Salia Sanou and Seydou Boro met in 1992. Both they created CREDO (dramatic exchange and research center). Auditioned and selected by Mathilde Monnier to be permanent dancers in her company, Salia Sanou and Seydou Boro created company Salia nï Seydou in 1994. The same year, they produced their first choreographic work, The century of the fools, with which they were awarded the first national prize of the African contemporary dance contest organized by Afrique en créations. Salia Sanou and Seydou Boro were also the prize winners of the second Choreographic meeting of Africa and the Indian Ocean in Luanda. Since 2000, they are co-directors of the choreographic meetings, Dialogues de corps and are directors of the new Center of Choreographic Development (CDC) - La Termitière of Ouagadougou.

Salia Sanou’s work with the dancers will be based on the practice and the feelings brought into play between African dance culture based on structured movement and the possibilities offered by contemporary dance to deconstruct movement. Seydou Boro’s two days workshop will be dedicated to exploring breathing and speech to try to discover and question the mechanisms of cohabitation between movement and speech as well as the possibilities that are open up or restricted by this cohabitation.

Conference with Gérard Mayen

Participants will take part in a conference about company Salia nï Seydou and African contemporary dance with Gérard Mayen, dance critic, who wrote a book on the company (ed. L'Harmattan).