Choreography:
Maša Kagao Knez
Music:
Issiaka Sanou, Blaž Korez, Daniel Felingue, Leticia Slapnik Yebuah
Performed by:
Daniel Felingue, Maša Kagao Knez, Issiaka Sanou
and dance group Baobab:
Vesna Bizjak, Tjaša Jerak, Kristina Sicherl, Sara Zaninovič, Ajda Žagar, Eva Žagar
Production: KUD Baobab
Baobab Dance Company grew out of the project ISAK (the Slovenian acronym stands for Expressive World of African Culture), which Baobab Society has been developing since 2009 and is supported by European Social Funds and Slovenian Ministry of Culture. The aim of the Expressive World of African Culture is to spread, present and promote African culture by actively integrating first and further generation immigrants from Africa by including them in the practice of dance and music.
Within ISAK project, new dance and music projects are created each year. They are always based around the theme of linking the “African” and the “European”.
The evening of dance and music called Footsteps is a presentation of short dance pieces that members of Baobab Dance Company have developed in 2012. Dance routines have either emerged from a certain traditional West African dance or have come out of exploring one’s own dance expression based on a traditional rhythm, but they are all connected, interwoven and complementing each other.
