GALERIJA SLIK PROJEKTA
VIDEO PROJEKTA
Choreography created and performed by
Dalanda Diallo, Jeanne Kondé, Soizic Muguet, Malin Wiskari, Daudet Grazaï, Maša Kagao Knez
Authors and music performed by
Irena Yebuah Tiran, Thomas Guei, Leticia Slapnik Yebuah, Kandia Kouyate, Issiaka Sanou
Original music score by
Damir Mazrek & Andrej Hrvatin
Assistant choreographer
Rosana Hribar
Dramaturgy
Andreja Kopač
Costumes
Férouz Allali - Africouleur Paris, EA kreativa
Producer
Rok Avbar
Public relations
MoJcA OcvirK
Coproduction
Cultural association Baobab and Cankarjev dom
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.
The opening night of Dia Diasso Diasspora is also the main event of the international festival of African culture Baofest 2013.
VIDEO OF PERFORMANCE
* for persons under 25 and over 65, pensioners and members of KUD Baobab
The project was funded by
Centre National de la danse, Paris
Krka d.d.
Revoz d.d.
Francoski inštitut v Sloveniji
Hotel Park
DPG
Art Rebel 9
Kliping
Siesta
Special thanks to
Cécile Obermosser, Daphné Millfoa, Petri Koprivec, Leticii Slapnik Yebuah, Lei Menard, Nastji Skrušny, Andreji Potočnik, Maruši Geymayer Oblak, Banu Diallo, Michelu Obenga, Urši Cvahte, Plesnemu Teatru Ljubljana, Živi Brecelj.