«Africa
Simply the Best» is a platform that brings choreographers from the
entire continent together in Burkina Faso and lets them perform against
one another. Every two years, this enormous cultural event crowns the
best in their discipline, and three of the award-winners got to
showcase their work on the stage at Theater Casino Zug as part
of the Culturescapes Festival 2023.
Bibata
Ibrahim Maïga is a young dancer and choreographer from Mali was
delivering her solo performance «Esprit Bavard» in Zug. She uses it to
question our relationship with religion and society. What are the
expectations on us and how does their influence shape us as individuals?
Addressing ourselves is expressed in movement.
In her solo
entitled «Kemet», South Africa’s Assanda Ruda searches for
differentiation and emancipation from her own culture within the
theatre. Her focus is on the issue of political appropriateness in the
Africa of today which determines social cohesion and identity.
Cameroon’s
Tchina N’Djida’s «Cross» deals with illegal immigrants leaving their
families behind in the search for paradise. It shows the horror that
young people have to go through before they finally come to the awful
decision that they have leave, at any cost.
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