Dance Classes with Khadidiatou Bangoura and Luana Madikera
Through a collaboration of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Goethe-Institut Montreal and fabrik Potsdam – Internationales Zentrum für Tanz und Bewegungskunst, artists
Khadidiatou Bangoura and
Luana Madikera have received a residency in the studios of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique. This residency allows them to develop further their artistic relationship and explore new avenues of creative collaboration. In counterpart, Québec artists Rozenn Lecomte and Léa Noblet Di Ziranaldi are welcomed at the fabrik Potsdam – Internationales Zentrum für Tanz und Bewegungskunst.
Khadidiatou Bangoura and Luana Madikera cordially invite you to the following classes!
Afro- fusion with Luana Madikera
Wednesday, August 28, 11 – 12 pm
Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, Espace Saint-André, Studio A
1881, rue Saint-André
Fee: Pay what you can.
Registration:
caroline.gagnon@goethe.de
Afro fusion is an umbrella term to describe the fusion of different west, central and south African urban and club styles (Azonto, Ndombolo, Amapiano, Jazzé, Naija street styles...). In this open class we will discover some dances steps from those styles, learn a combo together and flow through the rhythms and variety of contemporary African music genres.
Flying low with Khadidiatou Bangoura
Thursday, August 29, 11 – 12:30 pm
Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, Espace Saint-André, Studio A
1881, rue Saint-André
Fee: Pay what you can.
Registration:
caroline.gagnon@goethe.de
“Flying Low” (movement method by David Zambrano) through set movement sequences plays with the relationship of the dancer with the floor, the space and the other dancers in the room. Using specific principles related to spirals, we glide in and out of the floor with ease and we practice how to constantly see ourselves, the space and others from all sides at all times. Improvisation tasks are used to train body awareness, alertness and to celebrate our own movement ability as well as the joy of dancing together to great music.
About the artists
Khadidiatou Bangoura
Khadidiatou Bangoura is originally from Liberia and Guinea. She was born in France and grew up in Germany. After a BA in International Relations & Development Studies and an MA in African Studies in London, she graduated in contemporary dance at Danceworks Berlin in October 2017. In January 2023, she started collaborating with Kuyum Kollaborativ in Berlin, a research project centered around contemporary neo-African dance. In February 2023, she was invited by Melissa Guex to perform in an improvised performance called Soul Dance at Festival Rolande Leonard in Lausanne, Switzerland. Since March 2023, she has been researching and developing the creation of an inclusive dance class for blind, visually-impaired and sighted participants. This research has led to the exploration of the development of a dance performance for blind and visually-impaired audiences without audio description, which was presented as a work in progress in August 2023 under the title How does it feel?. In September 2023, she was part of two performances at Kuyum Arts Festival in Berlin: Kuyum Kollaborativ – the result of a group residency investigating neo-African dance and DIEKPO – a duett exploring and deconstructing the Ghanaian ritual of the same name and adapting it to the stage.
Her own choreographic works include The heart is a muscle (November 2026), Adult-ish (July 2017), Hey Stranger (November 2017), fight, flight, freeze (June 2020), Moving Structures (2021/2022) and Feel the World Through My Skin – Observations on everyday racism (September 2021, October/November 2022, March 2023). Through dance, she analyzes our relationships to each other, to ourselves and to our environment, thereby discovering and creating new narratives that lead to (self-)reflection. In doing so, she is particularly interested in perceptions and ways of perceiving. Since 2022, this artistic focus has increasingly been pursued through spontaneous improvisation as well as the movement methods Flying Low and Passing Through.
Luana Madikera
Luana Madikera is a versatile mutidisciplinary dancer, poet and performer. With a deep passion for exploring different dance forms, Luana merges modern, urban, and traditional African and Afro-Caribbean dances, including but not limited to azonto, ndombolo, amapiano, sabar and gwoka as well as improvisation and contemporary dance. Through Luana’s research and performances, she delves into significant themes such as resilience, black identity, resistance, intergenerational trauma, and decoloniality. Luana has worked for different choreographers such as: Magda Korsinsky (Patterns), Alexis Blake (Crack Nerves Boogie Swerve), Felix Dompreh (Diekpo).
Along with her work as a dancer, she has developped her own dance piece for children titled Wurzula which addresses the topics of roots and identity. She has also a collective FemBlack performance collective, with which she has created the afrofuturistic piece Another space/memory. As a member of the tropical bass band La By‘le, Luana Madikera regularly performs as a rapper, singer and dancer. In addition, Luana Madikera is a dedicated dance teacher and educator. She generously shares her expertise and passion for dance by conducting regular classes and workshops tailored for both adults and children. Through her teaching, Luana imparts not only technical skills but also a deep understanding of the cultural and historical context of the dance forms she specializes in.
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