Ezan-Kélé
Choreografie: Kossi S. Aholou-Wokawui (Togo/Deutschland)
Concept, Choreography: Kossi Sebastien Aholou-Wokawui
In his choreography, Kossi S. Aholou-Wokawui interrogates dawn as a state in which everything unconscious of the night resonates, bubbling under the surface and pushing up the unexpected with unimagined force, lava-like. "Ezan-Kélé (dawn in the Ewe language) has its creative origin in my memories of the nocturnal and early morning movements of people in rural Togo: an in-between state between dreaming and waking, half asleep, encountering others and oneself in the darkness." (Kossi S. Aholou-Wokawui)
In his choreography, Kossi S. Aholou-Wokawui interrogates dawn as a state in which everything unconscious of the night resonates, bubbling under the surface and pushing up the unexpected with unimagined force, lava-like. "Ezan-Kélé (dawn in the Ewe language) has its creative origin in my memories of the nocturnal and early morning movements of people in rural Togo: an in-between state between dreaming and waking, half asleep, encountering others and oneself in the darkness." (Kossi S. Aholou-Wokawui)
The piece will be performed by four dancers from Of Curious Nature, for whom Aholou-Wokawui is choreographing for the first time. His dance language was formed in his original homeland of Togo and combines with contemporary European dance, which he has been practising for years, to form new and fresh interweavings.