C LA VIE

After inaugurating the REF 2018 with Kirina, Serge Aimè Coulibaly returns to explore African tradition and to catapult it into the future. His new creation C’la vie, is once again a celebration of life, an ode to human resilience and its swaggering energy. The choreographer, founder of the Faso Danse Théâtre company, has in fact tried to draw a line of conjunction between the West African tradition of the Wara (from the Senufo region) and western carnivals. Amalgamating the history and evolution of these ancient rituals of transgression and their dances, a new ritual is born- one that celebrates our contemporary world. Through a state of trance and the gesture that overcomes it, feeding on traditional forms and rhythms, Coulibaly gives life to a contemporary choreographic language whose energy is embodied in a meticulous execution and in music – the constant language of all his productions and of his training as a percussionist – performed live by drummer and multi-instrumentalist Stéphane Edouard (fine connoisseur of Indian, African and European music).