Dance class – all levels

Afro-Urban dances with Siaka Coulibaly

Afro-urban dance has taken the world by storm, appearing everywhere and constantly reinventing itself, blending the richness of traditional African dances with an urban swag.

Siaka Coulibaly will guide us through these diverse dances, as inventive as the African continent itself, all sharing a focus on creativity, innovation, and vibe. Energy, cardio, body awareness, and a sense of community are at the heart of this session. Siaka will lead participants through the rhythms of urban African sounds or even coupé-décalé.

Once you’re warmed up, join the jam in the afternoon with Siaka and DJ S!D after the dance conference by Cie Dans6T (separate ticket required), where you’ll be unstoppable 😉

Wear a light top, leggings or jogging pants, and sneakers (or go barefoot). No prior experience required, just be in shape and ready for an energetic class!

Levels: children up from 10 y/o, teens, adults and seniors. Persons in wheelchairs welcome!

Siaka Coulibaly

Trained in traditional Nubian vault masonry, Siaka Coulibaly, born and educated in a rural environment, began dancing as a liberating movement in his life.

Despite the reluctance of his family and social environment, he decided to leave his native village to benefit from professional training in dance.

This methodical approach made him understand that the techniques and rituals he learned in his socialization, in agriculture as in masonry, were all music, dance, rhythm.

Today, he conducts research around the gestures and materials specific to traditional masonry in relation to movement, the body and space.

Siaka Coulibaly first joined the training of Salia Sanou and Saïdou Boro at La Termitère Ouagadougou. Intensive training follows in Burkina, at the Ecole des Sables, in Togo and in Benin: Germaine Acogny and Alesandra Seutin, Elsa Wolliaston, Irène Tassambédo, Ladji Koné.

In Burkina-Faso, he joined several companies, got involved in artistic and cultural education and created the Urban-Impro Dance Project.

Since 2022, he has been following the professional training of Anne-Marie Porras in Epsedanse, Montpellier.

Pedagogue, he teaches dance in regular workshops for the general public. Siaka Coulibaly is a dance reference for a group of displaced youth through the sociocultural program #JeSuis, where he regularly creates choreographies.

 

Sunday, December 8

10 – 11:30 AM

Halle Tropisme 

Workshop held in French language. Wheel chair users welcome! Please register for French Sign Language interpreter.

Presale: 15€ (reduced rate: 10€)

On-site: 17€ (reduced rate: 12€)

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Related program…

Jam for everyone with Siaka Coulibaly & DJ S!D after the dance conference with Bouziane Boutelja, Sunday December 8 at 2:30 PM at Halle Tropisme (separate ticketing).

Urban dances 2.0, a continuous screening of dance videos at Théâtre d’O, Saturday December 6 starting at 5PM, .to better understand the new dances emerging within the urban culture of the diasporas.

The documentary film The Call for Dance in Senegal by Diane Fardoun, Sunday December 8 at 8PM at Cinéma Utopia.

Photo © Dirk Korell