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Serge Aimé Coulibaly

Kalakuta Republik

Tickets:

24/14 Euro (concessions from 9 Euro, 50%  discount with festival pass, double-ticket with concert of SEUN KUTI on 17.08. 44/34 Euro)

Past dates

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Thursday

8/17/17

8:00 PM

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Friday

8/18/17

8:30 PM

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Saturday

8/19/17

8:30 PM

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KALAKUTA REPUBLIK is an intense and fast-paced piece about Fela Kuti, the founder of Afrobeat music, who in his role as the poster boy of the pan-African resistance movement in the 1970s united art and politics like no other. Kuti’s expansive songs, influenced by polyrhythmic Yoruba music and his experiences in London’s jazz and funk clubs, became weapons of political activism; his appearances were »underground spiritual games,« wild improvisations with elements of political satire. Kuti’s band and his son, Seun Kuti (p. 35), carry on this project to this day. Choreographer Serge Aimé Coulibaly, from Burkina Faso, takes on Kuti’s music and his ambivalent personality, with its excessive drug use, charisma and strong political will, and translates it into a powerful movement language that feeds off traditional West African vocabulary and contemporary globalized nightlife. Named for Kuti’s estate, which he declared as independent of the Nigerian state, KALAKUTA REPUBLIK is a hypnotic dance piece that draws a path from the African revolution to our contemporary times.

Concert: SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 17.08. 22:00 (tickets: 30 euro, evening box: 34 euro, double ticket for concert and performance on 17.08.: 44/34 Euro)

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CONCEPT / CHOREOGRAPHY : Serge Aimé Coulibaly BY AND WITH: Adonis Nebié, Marion Alzieu, Sayouba Sigué, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Ahmed Soura, Antonia Naouele, Ida Faho MUSIC: Yvan Talbot VIDEO : Eve Martin DRAMATURG: Sara Vanderieck ASSISTENT CHOREOGRAPHER: Sayouba Sigué STAGE, COSTUMES: Catherine Cosme LIGHT DESIGN: Hermann Coulibaly TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT: Sam Serruys PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Halles de Schaerbeek DISTRIBUTION : Frans Brood Productions
PRODUCTION Faso Danse Théâtre, Halles de Schaerbeek CO-PRODUCTION Maison de la Danse Lyon, TorinoDanza, Le Manège Scène nationale de Maubeuge, Le TARMAC - La Scène internationale francophone Paris, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Ankata Bobo Dioulasso, Les Récréâtrales Ouagadougou, Festival AfriCologne, CC De Grote Post Oostende. With the support of the Musée des Confluences (Lyon) in the form of a residency and with support by la Fédération Wallonie-bruxelles, service de la danse.