For her new creation, Nadia Beugré, an artist originally from the Ivory Coast, embarks on a lonely journey to the village of her ancestors, the village of her childhood: Yikakou. That place no longer exists: the land, considered cursed, is now covered with forest, and the artist's journey has turned into a search for different archetypal female figures, which she embodies, for the first time on stage in Lugano, in an incredibly powerful performance.
With generous and explosive performativity, she shares every drop of her own existence and that of her ancestors who still live within her. Inhabited by these female voices from the past, between collective memories and intimate recollections, Beugré is accompanied by two other women: a griot, bearer of the forgotten stories of the clan, and a musician/singer. Both echo and bear witness to her story in this incisive and highly engaging creation.
Tuesday 07 October
Teatro Foce
25 CHF
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artistic direction and performance
Nadia Beugré
performance and live music
Salimata Diabate, Charlotte Dali
dramaturgy
Kader Lassina Touré
scenography
Jean-Christophe Lanquetin
original music
Lucas Nicot
lighting
Paulin Ouedraogo
lighting operator
Claire Legrand
production
Virginie Dupray
co-production
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Charleroi danse - Centre chorégraphique national de la fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Montpellier Danse, in residence at L'Agora-cité internationale de la danse, with the support of Fondation BNP Paribas, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Theater Freiburg, Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, in the context of Accueil Studio program 2025/ Ministry of Culture, ICI - Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Occitanie / Direction: Christian Rizzo as part of the associated artist device
support
DRAC / French Ministry of Culture and Région Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée
thanks
Ivoire Marionnettes & Institut français de Côte d'Ivoire
