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Tidiani N’Diaye

Mali / Created in 2024

There is a duality to work, or “baara” in the Bambara language. It is as painful as it is necessary, as enslaving as it is liberating. This choreographic creation explores that paradox. 

Baara, Tidiani N’Diaye, 2024 © Christophe Raynaud de Lage / Festival d'Avignon

Presentation

Drawing from their observation of workers, farmers, and garbage collectors, dancers and choreographers Tidiani N’Diaye and Adonis Nebié seek to appropriate these gestures repeated every day with precision and meticulousness. Against a backdrop of experimental music composed by Clara De Asis, their performance evokes the harshness of work and the alienation it causes at the same time as it explores the intoxication of repetition and the joy of being together. 

En el trabajo, “baara, en lengua bambara, hay una dualidad. Es tan duro como necesario, tan esclavizante como liberador. Esta creación coreográfica examina esta dualidad. 

Distribution

With Tidiani N'Diaye, Adonis Nebié Tauwindsida
and Clara De Asís (musician)
Choreography Tidiani N'Diaye, Adonis Nebié Tauwindsida
Artistic collaboration and dramaturgy Andreya Ouamba
Original music Clara De Asís
Production
Julia Grosjean

Production

Production Copier Coller
Coproduction Festival d'Avignon, SACD, TU-Nantes, Scène de recherche de l’ENS Paris-Saclay, Ateliers Médicis (Clichy-sous-Bois)
With the support of the Service de Coopération et d'Action culturelle of the French Embassy in Mali
With the help of the Centre national de danse contemporaine d'Angers, Le Fil Coopérative malienne d'artistes

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