Program

03.04.19, 19:00 SALIA SANOU Burkina Faso [HAU2] With Du Désir d’horizons, Salia Sanou picks up on his favorite themes: loneliness and otherness of the individual, but also the question of territory, uprooting, exile, and borders. Here he processes his impressions from refugee camps in Burundi and Burkina Faso where he gave workshops as part of…

05.04.19, 20:30, KASSIM SANOGO, Frankreich / Mali 2018, DCP, OmE, 54 min – German Premiere [HAU1] Early 2012, Northern Mali is occupied by different armed groups, demanding a division of the country and the introduction of Sharia rule. In Gao, the historic capital of the North, young residents organise resistance groups against the occupiers, trying…

05. + 06.04.19, 19:00, FATOUMATA BAGAYOKO, Mali – German Premiere [HAU3] In her solo piece Fatoumata Bagayoko from Mali takes on female circumcision, to which she, along with numerous women not only in her home country, fell victim. In the darkness of the stage she raises her voice, while recapitulating the specific scenes of this…

05. + 06.04.19, 19:00, ALIOUNE DIAGNE, Senegal – German Premiere [HAU3] With this piece Alioune Diagne revives the spirit and story of the forgotten Senegalese boxing hero Battling Siki. Every dance here is a fight, and every fight a dance. Siki was the first African boxing world champion, he won his title in Paris in…

06.04.19, 20:30, NADIA BEUGRÉ, Côte d’Ivoire – German Premiere [HAU2] What lies beneath the red carpet rolled out in Africa and across the world for the mighty and powerful? In her piece the Ivorian choreographer Nadia Beugré views the world “from below” and takes the audience on a journey through images we not often want to…

09.04.19, 19:00, SERGE AIMÉ COULIBALY / ROKIA TRAORÉ / FELWINE SARR, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal [HAU2] For the creation of Kirina Serge Aimé Coulibaly drew on inspiration from his African background and his reflections on the world of today. The piece is named after a battle of the Mandinka people in the 12th Century, of…