interactive dance and music performance for children
A VISIT TO AN AFRICAN VILLAGE
Idea:
Jasna Knez
Choreography:
Maša Kagao Knez & Dalanda Diallo
Musical arrangement:
Damir Mazrek, Blaž Korez, Issiaka Sanou
Text:
Damir Mazrek, Dalanda Diallo, Lea Menard
The creators of performance:
Dalanda Diallo, Maša Kagao Knez, Laetitia Zinsou, Lea Menard, Issiaka Sanou, Damir Mazrek, Blaž Korez
Dancing, acting, singing, performing music:
Lea Menard, Dalanda Diallo, Leticia Slapnik Yebuah, Maša Kagao Knez, Issiaka Sanou, Blaž Korez
About performance
Two travellers embark on a fantasy journey. They arrive to an African village, where they meet the village women. They use dance and music to demonstrate their daily chores and by using drumming take them into the world of African music and its rhythms. Through dance they walk them through the laborious but fun-filled and pleasant day. As the travellers don’t speak the language of the village, they communicate through music, dance and gestures and so learn about the pulse of this African place.
The repetitions
KUD France Preseren , March 2012
Festival Baofest – September 2012
Pikin Festival, Velenje – September 2012
Theater Koper – October 2012, May 2013
Cultural centre Janez Trdina Novo mesto – January 2014
Chocolate Festival, Radovljica - April 2014
Festival Rdeči Revirji, Hrastnik - May 2014
Festival Kalejdoskop, Kranj - June 2014
Sankt. Jakob Rosenkrantz (Austria) - June 2014
Summer in Celje, Celje - July 2014
