Performance
Germaine Acogny (SN) / Mikaël Serre (DE/FR) – Somewhere at the Beginning
Aug 2 2017
21:00
€8 – €36
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
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African history, Greek tragedy and a god of thunder, lightning and war – the 73-year-old Senegalese choreographer and grande dame of African contemporary dance, Germaine Acogny, in a tremendous solo against a background of stories told by her grandmother Aloopho. Directed by Mikaël Serre and complemented by Sébastien Dupouey’s intense video images that show flickering faces, writhing snakes and symbolically charged objects, Acogny’s figure evokes the colonial past of Africa and Europe: she is a Medea, who refuses to kill her children and hurls herself into a confrontation with the present.