Cassa Cassa: Dance meeting of Africa and the diaspora

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Title

Cassa Cassa: Dance meeting of Africa and the diaspora

Collection

African Dance Video Archive

Names

Lefebvre, Elodie (Screenwriter)
Lefebvre, Elodie (Director)
Lefebvre, Elodie (Editor of a moving image work)
Bendongué, Fred (Dancer)
Bendongué, Fred (Choreographer)
Bendongué, Fred (Interviewee)
Le Messurier, Flavia Chevez (Dancer)
Le Messurier, Flavia Chevez (Interviewee)
Le Messurier, Flavia Chevez (Choreographer)
Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo (Dancer)
Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo (Interviewee)
Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo (Choreographer)
Chipaumire, Nora (Dancer)
Chipaumire, Nora (Interviewee)
Chipaumire, Nora (Choreographer)
Maqoma, Gregory (Dancer)
Maqoma, Gregory (Interviewee)
Maqoma, Gregory (Choreographer)
Ouamba, Andréya (Dancer)
Ouamba, Andréya (Interviewee)
Ouamba, Andréya (Choreographer)
Funmi, Adewole (Dancer)
Funmi, Adewole (Interviewee)
Funmi, Adewole (Choreographer)
Moreira, Rui, 1963- (Dancer)
Moreira, Rui, 1963- (Interviewee)
Moreira, Rui, 1963- (Choreographer)
Damasceno, Tatiana (Dancer)
Damasceno, Tatiana (Interviewee)
Damasceno, Tatiana (Choreographer)
Carlés, James (Dancer)
Carlés, James (Interviewee)
Carlés, James (Choreographer)
Blou, Léna (Choreographer)
Blou, Léna (Interviewee)
Ndaiye, Pape Ibrahima (Dancer)
N'daiye, Pape Ibrahima (Choreographer)
Liadi, Adedayo (Dancer)
Liadi, Adedayo (Choreographer)
Acogny, Germaine, 1944- (Choreographer)
Acogny, Patrick (Choreographer)
Adodo, Lola (Choreographer)
Andriamoratsiresy, Ariry (Choreographer)
Beugré, Nadia (Choreographer)
Douglas, Gilbert (Choreographer)
Fo, Longa (Choreographer)
Fonkam, Jean Michel (Choreographer)
Grimes, Errol (Choreographer)
Jemal, Jundai (Choreographer)
Kapo, Clément (Choreographer)
Lumarque, Nicole (Choreographer)
Onyango, Odak (Choreographer)
Sanou, Salia (Choreographer)
Théfaine, Flora (Choreographer)
Tobio, Hyacinthe Abdoulaye (Choreographer)
Vogt, Helmut (Choreographer)
Amancio, Gilbert (Musician)
Ba, Djibril (Musician)
Denis, Raoul J.R (Musician)
Diop, Abdoulaye (Musician)
Diop, Oumar Fandy (Musician)
Flauzin, Felix (Musician)
Penda, Badara (Musician)
Seck, Ndeye (Musician)
Simao, Francisco Tiago (Musician)
Simao, Joao Paulo (Musician)
École des Sables (Producer)
Lefebvre, Elodie (Donor)
Ouemba, Andreya (Dancer)
Ouemba, Andreya (Choreographer)
Ouemba, Andreya (Interviewee)
Tapol, Aymeric de, 1974-.... (Sound designer)
Lefebvre, Eleonore (Translator)
Merveilles d'Afrique (Dance company) (Translator)
Vair, Christian (Translator)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 2012
Place: Senegal

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2870

Subjects

Dance -- Africa
African diaspora
African diaspora in art
African American dance

Genres

Filmed Dance
Music
Filmed Performances

Notes

Creation/Production Credits: sound mixing, Fred Lillo; color correction and subtitles, thibault Saksik; DVD output, PCR;
Venue: 2012 Senegal.
Acquisition: Gift; Elodie Lefebvre, 2013.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (Digital Betacam) (52 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Abstract

From Elodie Lefebvre's website: "Germaine Acogny, a leading figure in contemporary African dance and the founder of the École des Sables in Senegal, has longed for many years to bring together choreographers from Africa and the diaspora. In 2007, the École des Sables invited for the first time thirty-five choreographers and musicians of African origin for the project 'Recontres dansées de l'Afrique et de sa diaspora' (Danced Encounters of Africa and its Diaspora). This remote place became for two weeks the site for exceptional exchange. Each artist who has accepted the invitation brings his or her own personal universe. They unfold it under the others' gaze, in a quest for the nature of the links that unite them with Africa; they put it into a dialogue with their partners' universes, searching for the mutations of form and meaning which their dancing has undergone. It is with a desire for communion and sharing that these unique trajectories meet at the École des Sables; it is between the bush and the ocean that they reunite with their collective history."

Languages

French
English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 951987001
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b21004114
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 30228130-72e2-0134-f268-00505686a51c

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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