La Dernière Danse du Monarque

Name: La Dernière Danse du Monarque, Babacar Cissé, Germaine Acogny, Les Associés Crew (SE) | Frascati
Start: 2022-10-06T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Frascati

Babacar Cissé, Germaine Acogny, Les Associés Crew (SE)

Wed 5 Oct ’22 and Thu 6 Oct ’22

Four butterflies, their dreams and their pursuit, about transience and things that pass

Wed 5 Oct ’22

and

Thu 6 Oct ’22

Wed 5 Oct ’22

22:00

Openingsavond Afrovibes

Frascati

Frascati 1

Past event
Thu 6 Oct ’22

22:00

Frascati

Frascati 1

Past event

A mix of dance, music and performance by Babacar Cissé and Germaine Acogny (present on video projection) in which intimacy and challenge, memory, aging and the inexorability of time come together.

La Dernière Danse du Monarch is the last part of a triptych by Babacar Cissé about wolves. The first part was about the meeting between two wolves, the second part about the wolf's place in the group. In this third part, Cissé, as the old wolf, gives one last dance to tell his story. The story of the Monarch butterfly who left home and hearth to find a better future in another country.

This dance of the wolf is a mix of dance, music and performance in which intimacy, memory, aging and the inexorability of time come together. It is the story of four butterflies. The first butterfly, grandfather of the wolf and Senegalese archer, the second butterfly, father of the wolf who left his native land to give his children a better life, the third butterfly, the wolf himself who struggles to live in a white society in which a black man often provokes prejudice and the fourth butterfly, the wolf's daughter. Will she be able to live the peaceful life that we all aspire to?

The four butterflies tell the story of their dreams and their pursuit, about transience and things that pass.

Duration: 60 min

Part of

Afrovibes 2022

Credits

choreography Babacar Cissé dans Babacar Cissé Special presence Germaine Acogny (via video projectie) light Yvan Labasse production Les Associés Crew

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About Babacar Cissé

The Senegalese choreographer and dancer Babacar Cissé discovered hip-hop dance in 1984. In 1994 he performed as an artist with Opéra de Bordeaux in Verdi's opera Aïda. As a dancer and choreographer he has worked with Anthony Egéa (Compagnie Rêvolution), Jean Louis Thamin (TNBA), Joseph and Moïse N'Tumba (Tribal Jam group) and with Hamid Ben Mahi (Compagnie Hors Série). In 2006 Babacar Cissé founded his company Les Associés Crew. In 2008 he received the 1st Award SACD Beaumarchais Jeune Compagnier for his first choreography Être et Renaître. He then worked on the choreography On n'oublie pas by Compagnie Hors Série/Hamid Ben Mahi and the choreography and staging of Carmina Burana with the Ensemble Vocal d'Aquitaine.

In 2010, Babacar Cissé choreographed Orphée and performed in Compagnie Montalvo Hervieu's opera Porgy and Bess. In 2010 he choreographed the dance solo Le syndrome de l'exilé. From 2013 to 2015, Babacar Cissé works as a choreographer with An Amerikkkan Dream and as a dancer with Apache (Compagnie Hors Série), The Roots and Opus 14 (CCN La Rochelle). In 2015, Cissé started his dance triptych on the theme of wolves, with W o L v e S and La Meute, which was performed in several countries, including Afrovibes 2020. As an extension of this triptych, he created a new work with his company Les Associés Crew: Je suis fait de la matière de mes rêves. His latest production is the dance solo La Derniere Danse du Monarque' in collaboration with Germaine Acogny and Les Petites Rencontres. Babacar Cissé alternates living and working between Senegal and France.

About Germaine Acogny

Germaine Acogny (Benin, 1944) is an icon in contemporary dance in Africa. In 1968 she founded her dance studio in Dakar. In 1980 she published her book La Danse Africaine. She taught in France and moved to Brussels. In 1995 she returned to Senegal. Germaine Acogny is a Knight of the Ordre du Mérite et Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française and Knight of the Ordre National du Lion du Sénégal. In 2014, according to Jeune Afrique, she belonged to the '50 Most Influential African Personalities in the World' In 2019, she played a role in the film Yao starring Omar Sy, and in 2021 Germaine Acogny received a Golden Lion for Dance at the Venice Biennale.