MEDIATHEK

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.