INTERNATIONALES THEATERINSTITUT / MIME CENTRUM BERLIN

MEDIATHEK

FÜR TANZ

UND THEATER

MCB-DV-1160

Vin nem

Autorenschaft
Beschreibung

Vin Nem (The Light) is a men’s trio performed to live music and has been praised as “aesthetically beautiful and ahead in the artistic reflection…original and unpredictable.” Choreographed by Lacina Coulibaly and Souleymane Badolo, the work blends African sounds, movement, ritual gestures and animal symbolism, in a narrative work that transports the audience, examining a dialogue of bodies that arch, move in duos and trios and suspend time.

Vin Nem is perhaps inspired by one goal: existence. This need to exist is conveyed through the use of flour, which represents the food of life, and water, which at the end of the piece bathes and purifies the dancers’ bodies. The work tries to elucidate the truth by taking the audience into a metaphysical land hovering somewhere between tradition and modernity.

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Mit der Aufführung „Vin Nem“ gewann Kongo Ba Teria beim renommierten afrikanischen Tanzfestival „Rencontres Chorégraphiques de l’Afrique et de l’Océan Indien“ die Auszeichnung SANGA 2001.

Regie
Choreographie
Darsteller
Musik
Standorte
MCB
Aufnahmedatum
Montag, 31. Dezember 2001
Kamera
Ned Burgess, Valerie Urrea
Länge
24 min