CASSA CASSA, DANCED ENCOUNTERS OF AFRICA AND ITS DISAPORA – 2013
Documentary film
Duration : 52mn – 16:9 Widescreen – DVCAM – Colour – Stereo
Production : Association Jant-bi
Concept and direction : Élodie Lefebvre
Music : Aymeric de Tapol
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Subtitles: English, French
SYNOPSIS.
Germaine Acogny, a leading figure in contemporary African dance and the founder of the École des Sables in Senegal, has longed for many years to bring together choreographers from Africa and the diaspora.
In 2007, the École des Sables invited for the first time thirty-five choreographers and musicians of African origin for the project « Rencontres dansées de l’Afrique et de sa diaspora » (« Danced Encounters of Africa and its Diaspora »). This remote place became for two weeks the site for exceptional exchange. Each artist who has accepted the invitation brings his or her own personal universe. They unfold it under the others’ gaze, in a quest for the nature of the links that unite them with Africa; they put it into a dialogue with their partners’ universes, searching for the mutations of form and meaning which their dancing has undergone. It is with a desire for communion and sharing that these unique trajectories meet at the École des Sables; it is between the bush and the ocean that they reunite with their collective history.
GUEST CHOREOGRAPHERS:
Gregory Maqoma / Vuyani Dance Theatre / South Africa – Errol Grimes / Errol Grimes Dance Group / Barbados – Clement Kapo / Ballet national / Benin – Tatiana Damasceno / Brazil – Rui Moreira / SeráQ. / Brazil – Salia Sanou / Salia nï Seydou / Burkina Faso – Jean-Michel Fonkam / Cie Phénix / Cameroon – Fred Bendongue / Cie Fred Bendongue / Cameroon / France – James Carlès / Cie James Carlès / Cameroon / France – Nadia Beugré / Ex Cie Tché Tché / Ivory Coast – Junaid Jemal / Cie Adugna / Ethiopia – Lena Blou / Cie Trilogie / Guadeloupe – Nicole Lumarque / Ballet national / Haiti – Odak Onyango / Kenya Performing Arts Group / Kenya – Fumi Adewole / Nigeria / UK – Lola Adodo / Nigeria / UK – Adedayo Liadi / Ijodee / Nigeria – Ariry Andriamoratsiresy / Cie Rary / Madagascar – Flavia Chevez Le Messurier / Peru / UK – Longa Fô / DRC – Andreya Ouamba / Cie 1er Temps / Congo / Senegal – Germaine Acogny / Cie Jant-Bi / Senegal – Patrick Acogny / Cie Jant-Bi / Senegal / France – Pape Ibrahima Ndiaye Kaolack / Kaolack Dance Company / Senegal / Czech Republic – Flora Théfaine / Cie Kossiwa / Togo / France – Hyacinthe Tobio / Cie Les Jeunes Tréteaux / Chad – Jawolle Zollar / Urban Bush Women / USA – Nora Chipaumire / Zimbabwe / USA – Gilbert Douglas / Tumbuka Dance Company / Zimbabwe / Australia.
SHOWINGS
March 2015 : Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington – US.
February 2015 : Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley -US.
October 2014 / 2015 : NYAF traveling tour serie -US.
September 2014 : Rendez-vous de la Danse / Institut Français, N’Djamena – Tchad.
September 2014 : Festival Encontro da rede, Belo Horizonte – Brazil.
September 2014 : Festival Cosmopolis, Nantes – France.
June 2014 : African Film Festival, New-York -US.
March 2014 : Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden – Germany.
November 2013 : Festival le mois du documentaire, Guadeloupe – France.
June 2013 : Rencontre Africaines de Pessac – France.
April 2013 : Séminaire académique de Guadeloupe – France.
March 2013 : Ciné-danse Atelier Léna Blou, Guadeloupe – France.
October 2012 : Festival Danses et Continents noirs, Toulouse – France.
TV/WEB
July/October 2013: TV5 Afrique (web).
July 2013: TV5 Afrique.
COLLECTIONS
July 2015 : Centre de Développement Chorégraphique, Toulouse – France.
December 2013: Lincoln Art Center, New York – USA.
June 2013: Centre national de la Danse, Pantin – France.
June 2013: Cinémathèque de la Danse, Pantin – France.
June 2013: École des sables, Toubab Dialaw – Senegal.