Toubab Dialaw is a coastal town in Senegal. It is the location of Germaine Acogny’s Les Sables school but also that of a titanic port project, imagined between the Senegalese government and a company from Dubai. A pharaonic project that endangers an entire ecosystem. This new creation by Mikaël Serre questions the relationship of the African continent, its past and its future, with the rest of the world.
It is creation versus destruction. An artistic response, with the body, with words, with images too, to the pain of the past and concerns about the future. A show which questions memory and heritage, questions political-economic discourses, dissects life paths and relationships with land and exile.
All this through the history of a village in Senegal, Toubab Dialaw, the one where the mother of contemporary African dance established the renowned Ecole des Sables. The one also over which a project that looks like a monster hovers, a project for a huge container port, which brings back the ghosts of the past and awakens the appetite for resistance.
From the folder “ Toubab Dialaw », Mikaël Serre and the Fluide Ensemble built “Dialaw Project”, with Germaine Acogny, and with dancers and actors like Hamidou Anne.
“Dialaw Project” is at the Théâtre de la Ville/Théâtre des Abbesses in Paris until December 23.
Mikaël Serre, Germaine Acogny And Hamidou Anne are the guests of VMDN.
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