Siguifin

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Show, Transmission On tour
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2022
55min

Following the Covid 19 crisis, the creation schedule, initially planned for 2020 is postponed to 2021. The dates of January February 2021 are currently being postponed for January 2022. A closed preview took place on March 14, 2020 at the Institut Français of Senegal in Dakar and two in situ previews will take place in 2021 before a World Premiere in 2022.

There are nine dancers, three choreographers and one project director: the new creation by Amala Dianor brings together a wonderful group of talented individuals. The goal? To celebrate the continuing vitalty of hybrid African dance, decompartmentalized, continuously evolving, mirroring the constantly changing, simmering artistic whirlwind affecting the African continent.

Artistic intentions “Siguifin means “magical monster” in the Bambara language. This new work is the result of a collective choreographic process inspired by the game of Exquisite cadaver (a game involving the drawing of parts of the body, or combining words) to construct a magical, multi-faceted being.
Research led by Naomi Fall on the dancers’ individualities and questions which will develop from this meeting of young people from the three countries, and will then allow Ladji Koné to position the dancers and their personalities against each other through a creative process based on mutual listening and group cohesiveness. Then Alioune Diagne will explore the dancers’ cultures and these 3 neighboring countries, since they are not at all similar.

The texture of each creator’s dancing will be the bridge between all these parts of the work. Based on the mixing of the movement vocabularies, which will have been developed in the creation residencies, I will then create a through line, a canvas which connects yet also respects the three choreographic proposals, building that unique, magical being. I will also be interested in the young artists, channeling this question: what is their present, and what future will they build together in dialogue with the world? ” - Amala Dianor

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World premiere
15 january 2022
20:30
Théâtre de Suresne
as part of Suresnes Cités Danse
16 january 2022
17:00
Théâtre de Suresne
as part of Suresnes Cités Danse
upcoming date

No upcoming representation.

With
Salif Coulibaly aka Zongo, Jules Romain Djihounouck, Daniel Gombila Koala aka Tchapratt, Alicia (Arama) Sebia Gomis, Abdoul Kader Simporé aka Dainss, Rama Koné, Adama Mariko, Roger Sarr, Adiara Traoré
Artistic direction
Amala Dianor
Choreographer
Alioune Diagne, Ladji Koné, Naomi Fall et Amala Dianor
Music
Awir Leon
Lights and Stage manager
Nicolas Tallec
Costumes
Laurence Chalou
Production
KAPLAN | Cie Amala Dianor
Partners
Association Diagn’art directed by Alioune Diagne, Festival Fari Foni Waati directed by Naomi Fall, Collectif JUMP directed by Ladji Koné
Coproduction
Théâtre de Suresnes-Jean Vilar ; Atelier de Paris/ CDCN ; POLE-SUD, CDCN Strasbourg ; Institut français de Dakar, Sénégal ; Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne ; Centre de la danse Pierre Doussaint Grand Paris Seine et Oise
Commission Europe Creative
Siguifin is a Big Pulse Dance Alliance Commission, coproduced by Julidans (Netherlands), New Baltic Dance (Lithuania), Dublin Dance Festival (lreland), Tanz im August/HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Germany), Dance Umbrella (UK), CODA Oslo International Dance Festival (Norway), ONE Dance Week (Bulgaria) and presented by Zodiak - Side Step Festival (Finland),), International Dance Festival TANEC PRAHA (Czech Republic), Torinodanza Festival (ltaly)(tbc), co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
With the funding of
L’Etat-DRAC Pays de la Loire ; La Région Pays de la Loire ; l’ONDA ; l’Institut Français ; l’Office International de la Francophonie
Residencies
CDC la Termitière, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso ; Institut Français de Bamako et Blomba, Bamako, Mali ; Institut Français de Dakar et Le Château, Saint-Louis, Sénégal ; CDC - Ateliers de Paris ; Centre de la danse Pierre Doussaint Grand Paris Seine et Oise ; Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar

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Associate artist

Amala Dianor is associated artist to Touka Danses, CDCN Guyane, France (2021-2024) and Théâtre de Macon, France (2021-24) ; Les Quinconces - l’Espale, scène nationale le Mans, France (2021-2024).

Partners

Cie Amala Dianor / Kaplan, sustained by French State - DRAC Pays de la Loire, Pays de la Loire Region, Town of Angers. Since 2020, it is receiving the support of BNP Paribas Foundation.

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