DIA DIASSO DIASSPORA (FRA, SWE, CIV, BUR, GUI, SLO)
Dance and music performance
Choreography created and performed by: Dalanda Diallo, Jeanne Kondé, Soizic Muguet, Malin Wiskari (alternation: Urša Rupnik and Vito Vidovič Bintchende), Fabrice Daudet Grazai, Maša Kagao Knez, Vito Vidovič Bintchende
Music created and performed live by: Irena Yebuah Tiran, Thomas Guei, Leticia Slapnik Yebuah, Kandia Kouyate, Issiaka Sanou
Original music score by: Damir Mazrek
Dramaturgy: Andreja Kopač
Assistant choreographer: Rosana Hribar
Producer: Rok Avbar
Costumes: Férouz Allali – Africouleur Paris, EA Kreativa
Production: KUD Baobab
Co-production: Cankarjev dom
Premiere: March 27, 2013, Cankarjev dom, Linhart Hall
Dia Diasso Diasspora by Maša Kagao Knez is a unique mixture of African culture and the expression of modern music and dance. The piece stems from personal stories and experience of its international cast of collaborative authors of whom all are in their own way linked to Africa and source their work from African culture.
The word Dia means prosperity in Malinke, one of the languages of West Africa, Diasso means a good home (the word is also the surname of the choreographer’s father), whilst the word Diasspora speaks about the state of constant dichotomy between the homelands of the two parents and about the many faces of being different or the experience of (not) belonging.
With this striking piece of dance and music its authors have overcome the boundaries of countries and even continents and brought originality, spontaneity and openness onto the Slovenian cultural scene.
Dancer and choreographer Maša Kagao Knez trained in Paris at the George Momboye’s school for traditional and contemporary African dance. She lives and works in Ljubljana where she was born.
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