Atché
Atché is a representation of the identity, cultural richness and values of West African culture, highlighting the mythology of the Ewé and Ife lands, with a contemporary touch of dance movement in four movements.
This work explores the movements that illustrate the actions and dances of four gods: Dan (serpent); Sakpata (earth god); Hébiésso (thunder god) and Aguélé (fairy god of stilts).
Atché invites the public to learn about the creation of ancient myths and the harmonious interaction of various African divinities, forming a veritable symphony of gods. Their mission is to deliver messages and blessings to humans, nature and living beings.
Dancer / Percussion: Atchrimi Etse
Dance/Stilts: Lucas Alehe, Delphin Kodoh
Dance: Koffivi Agbovon, Patrick Sessou, Lucie Tale
Stilts: Eric Abalo
Percussion: Junior Kumalo
ATOPANI
“Saying the world differently, not with words or voice, but through Atopani, the Talking Tam-Tam. Finding a different way of conversing with ourselves and others” is the leitmotiv of this project.
But what can we say about the world? Narrating the history of our traditions in a language of renewed humanity. Drawing up a young worldview using traditional instruments to offer a more humanistic perception of the world, in the manner of Agbemavor (long life).
Percussionists: Efoé Julien Gbeteglo, Adjamla Komlavi, Isidore Egblogbele
Percussionist and painter: Eyram Kinglo
Percussionist and stilt-walker: Elvis Anani
Percussionist and actor: Kokou Hunka
Datcha
Datcha is the name of the village where, according to legend, stilts were born. It’s also the home village of some stilt-walkers. This creation is a tribute to the ancestors, situated between past and present: the past of traditional figures handed down by the great stilt-walkers and the present of the new figures created by AFUMA.
The show is divided into two parts: the first deconstructs traditional figures under Afuma’s impetus, while the second, inspired by tradition, opens the doors to a world of contemporary circus and street art.
This tribute to ancestors and customs reflects Afuma’s unwavering determination to perpetuate the art of stilt-walking in the 21st century, demonstrating the timelessness of this discipline.
Stilt-walkers: Tchoagnimoan Honoré Kinglo, Kassegne Kossi Ayena, Kossi Marcellin Apedo
Percussionists: Kossi Tchalla, Kodjo Atikpala
Papatiyé
Papatiyé is a show to promote the third album by the artist Eustache K’Mouna. The Togolese composer, performer, percussionist and singer, accompanied by his instrumentalists, combines various traditional rhythms (Gondona, Essakpa, Lakin Youdou…) with contemporary rhythms to create a lively musical experience for the audience.
The concert is a live search for sounds in which the musicians explore new instruments such as kitchen utensils, the rain tree, the talking stone, water…
A showcase through which the artist unveils the fruit of his research over the last three years.
Singer and musician: Bawokabati Kamouna
Percussionist and backing vocalist: Kodjo Mawunyo Aziagba
Percussionist: Efoe Julien Gbeteglo
Singer and guitarist: Abla Agadzi
Guitarist: Kokou Nono Rinklif
Wèdo
Percussionist and composer, Kossi Mawun is one of the most promising representatives of this new generation of Togolese jazzmen. Starting out as a drummer, he has collaborated on numerous concerts and projects
with artists as diverse as Toofan, Vaudou Game, Pépé Oléka, Otoufo and Mathias Montoya… Since 2019, he has launched a solo career with his first and only album “Wèdo” (“rainbow” in Mina) with pianist Joachim Amouzou and saxophonist Koffi Enam Assimadi.
This album, is somewhere between instrumental and experimental, is a rich cocktail of Togolese-inspired traditional music, brilliantly dressed up with jazz.
Drummer/percussionist: Kossi Mawunyo Gbogbozi
Pianist: Komi Joichain Senam Amouzou
Bassist: Jeremi Doumessi
EKIN – Racines, Origini
Ekin is a collective creation born of a meeting between Italy, Togo and France, and the desire to encourage cultures to communicate; to have them speak and dance on the same stage. This show, in which dance, storytelling, circus and music become one, aims to break down the boundaries between disciplines and cultures. Where do we come from? Where are we going? Where do we want to go? And, above all, can we get there together? Can we understand each other? In an age of globalization and identity-based withdrawal, can we communicate our roots? Eminently topical questions that this Afropean artistic team will tackle with virtuosity and mischief, in this multi-disciplinary show for all audiences.
Comedian, storyteller and humorist :Yendukoa Lare
Dancer: Nicolas Bertrand alias Bboy Bertrand
Musician and circus artist :Alessandro Brizio
Multidisciplinary artist: Comlanvi Adjamlan aka Ivalmok
Actress: Julia Brisset
Outside view:Roggo Koffi Fiangor
The Dance of the Seven Turns around
La Danse des Sept Tours (The Dance of the Seven Turns around) is a duet made up of the dancer Florence Gnarigo, also a choreographer, and the actress, Florisse Adjanohoun.
The show, inspired by “De Sang et de lumière”, a collection of 8 poems by Laurent Gaudé, gives voice to those forgotten by history, and addresses the question of the multitude of victims, the denied lives.
The poem finds its origin in a practice attested in the history of the slave trade: After being captured and before boarding the slave ships, each slave had to, under the constraint of the whip, go around seven times a tree called “The tree of oblivion” so that he forgets the land of his ancestors and loses all identity.
