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For this impressive musical performance, Côte d'Ivoire-born choreographer Nadia Beugré embarked on a solitary journey. A journey to the village of her ancestors, the village of her childhood: Yikakou. The village no longer exists: the land that was considered cursed is now covered with forest.
Beugré's journey developed into a search for various archetypal female figures. The figure of the grandmother who gave her the name Gbahihonon, “woman who says what she sees.” The figure of Dô-Kamissa, the aging woman who, after her brother wronged her, turned herself into a buffalo to destroy his land. As a female oracle, she skillfully arranged the marriage of the king to Sogolon Kandé, the hunchbacked woman.
Beugré, together with Charlotte Dali and Salimata Diabate, embodies all these different women in an incredibly powerful performance that resembles a ritual. With generous and explosive performativity and musical wit, the three share every drop of their own existence and that of their ancestors, who still live on in them.
Duration: 70 min.
With Aftertalk
Danceworkshop with Nadia Beugré on October 13, 9:30-10:30
In cooperation with Culturescapes 2025 Sahara.
Nadia Beugré
Born in Ivory Coast, Nadia Beugré made her first appearance in 1995 as a member of the Dante Theatre. Two years later, she became a founding member of Béatrice Kombé’s groundbreaking, all-female dance ensemble. After joining a programme for talented, up-and-coming choreographers at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier in 2009, she was soon staging productions of her own. Her work merges traditional folk dances, contemporary experimental dance and urban/hip-hop influences. The New York Times wrote in praise of her work: “It’s harrowing, both in action and sound; Ms. Beugré knows how to make a crowd trust her just as, in a split second, she knows how to knock the air out of people. She’s wild, like the wind.”
Credits
PERFORMANCE: Charlotte Dali
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: Lucas Nicot, Salimata Diabate
DRAMATURGY Kader Lassina Touré
SCENOGRAPHY Jean-Christophe Lanquetin
ORIGINAL MUSIC Lucas Nicot
LIGHT Paulin Ouedraogo
PRODUCTION Virginie Dupray
COPRODUCTION Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Bruxelles, Charleroi danse - Centre chorégraphique national de la fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Montpellier Danse, in residence at the cité internationale de la danse, with support from Fondation BNP Paribas, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Theater Freiburg, Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, in the framework of the 2025 Accueil Studio programme / Ministry of Culture, ICI - Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Occcitanie / Direction Christian Rizzo dans le cadre du dispositif artiste associé
In Cooperation with Culturescapes 2025 Sahara
