Photo © Bertrand Saky
8 Apr 2023 – Ecole des Sables, Toubab Dialaw, Dakar, Senegal
BLAST
BLAST is directed by Luxembourg based choreographer Emanuela Iacopini and performed in Senegal by an augmented cast of 8 dancers including 5 dancers from the Ecole des Sables in Toubab Dialaw, to an original sound track by Indian composer Rajivan Ayyappan. BLAST is a dance piece diving into the light and darkness of explosions, about destruction and creation, transition and transformation, the end and the beginning.
Video © Boshua
Duration: 60 min
Artistic direction/Choreography: Emanuela Iacopini Music: Rajivan Ayyappan Lights
Design: Nico Tremblay Lights operator: Lui L’Abbate Costume Design: Anne-Marie Herkes
Co-created in 2020 by : Frey Faust, Saju Hari, Emanuela Iacopini, Yuko Kominami Performed in Senegal by: Ami Colle, Latif Diedhiou, Frey Faust, Sebia Gomis, Saju Hari, Emanuela Iacopini, Kezia Jonah, Bonaventure Sossou
Production : VEDANZA / Ecole des Sables avec le soutien financier de l’Ambassade du Luxembourg à Dakar, Kultur LX Arts Council Luxembourg et le Fonds Culturel National FOCUNA
Co-Production 2020 : VEDANZA, Opderschmelz, CAPé Centre des Arts Pluriels Ettelbruck avec le soutien financier du Ministère de la Culture du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
Partenairs : CERModern Ankara, Ambassade du Luxembourg en Turquie, DeVIR/CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve, Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Casablanca, Sacem, Dance Science Net, Axis Syllabus International Research Network, FOCUNA, Fondation Indépendance
Special thanks to : Renzo Hettinger, Annejet Pette-Hettinger
