Overline: Performance and Talk about Black Atlantic

Headline: Asadata Dafora / Koffi Kôkô: Straußentanz

In 1932 West African musician and dancer Asadata Dafora performed in the USA a choreography known as Ostrich Dance which to the present day has been of central importance for the development of the Afro-American dance scene. His movements were inspiring and continued to be developed by numerous choreographers as an African understanding of the body. Dance choreographer Charles Moore embodied these choreographic studies like no other before him, and through his widow these studies have been passed on to Koffi Kôkô, who connected them with his own dance tradition of Vodun.

Choreografie & Tanz: Asadata Dafora (1932) / Tanz & Choreografie: Koffi Kôkô (IASS Senior Fellow) / Percussion: Achille Akacpo, Janos Crecellius / Produktionsleitung: Christiane Uekermann

Thur 12 Sept, 7 pm
Hanseatenweg, Halle 2
€ 13/7 EN