Balau

In the organizer's words:

A night in which joy and lamentation lie close together.

Serge Aimé Coulibay is known for his expressive, energetic dance language, which makes bodies and gestures immediately political. In the West African language Dioula, "Balau" refers to a stroke of fate, an unexpected event. Five actors from the Münchner Kammerspiele ensemble and three dancers from Faso Danse Théâtre form a community of fateful, expressive bodies for this dance theater evening. Beautiful and brutal events happen to them, unexpectedly, here and now in our complex world: they celebrate, lament, mourn, hope - with the metaphorical, poetic language of Fiston Mwanza Mujila on their lips.

Serge Aimé Coulibaly has already introduced himself to Munich audiences with his acclaimed dance guest performance "C la vie" and his co-direction of "Les statues rêvent aussi. Vision of a return" (together with Jan-Christoph Gockel). The internationally successful choreographer began his career as a dancer with Alain Platel and lives and works between Burkina Faso and Belgium. For "Balau", he is collaborating for the first time with the award-winning Congolese-Austrian author Fiston Mwanza Mujila, who became known to a wider audience with his novel "Tram 83".

"I try to resist the usual ways of thinking and see things differently, to share other points of view, to tell the lion's version, not the hunter's."

Serge Aimé Coulibaly