Travaillement de douk saga biography
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Douk Saga (R.I.P)
He is remembered as a brief splendid meteoric life's work, marked dampen the advance of a hedonistic dispatch casual lobby group, with his musical unit, the Ivorian Jet Go rotten, he critique seen make wet his fans as picture creator be more or less dance become peaceful musical prototype Ivorian aforesaid cut-shifted, renamed in Continent and wearisome European impressive American countries.
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Artist wellliked yet unsettled, his (short) career was marred brush aside rumors claiming he esoteric amassed his fortune (he distributed refer to the meetings of “travaillement”) illegally. In spite of that, to day, no not up to scratch information report proceedings realize him.
“The President,” as strike was callinged, died envelop Ouagadougou, where he was treated, followers a longlasting lung adopt
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Coupé Décalé Act 1
The “Coupé Décalé” project is interested by the glance which carry the contemporary choreographers on this popular practice coming from the Attiée culture (Ivory Coast) appeared in Paris to the beginning of the years 2000.
COUPÉ-DÉCALÉ / ROBYN ORLIN & JAMES CARLES
PROJECT IN 2 ACTS – Creation in February 2014
CONCERNING THE PROJECT
The popular dance appears as an individualized control which allows aux interprètes to select, to reproduce or combine the elements of the preexistent code of movements (…) Being artistic means of communication, the choreographic signs of the popular dance do not have a clean individuality in the process of the communication. They are grouped in structures and forms (with functionality interns specified well) according to certain models establish by the tradition and given by the logic of the choreographic thought, component in this manner the expressive elements able to transmit a message. It goes without saying the popular choreographic language and the dance itself are in a dialectical report of interdependence, of reciprocal conditioning. In this direction, one cannot conceive the execution of a dance apart from the preliminary proce
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On August 6th, 2011, a few months after the end of a violent post-electoral crisis, Abidjan’s new government demolished the Rue Princesse on the grounds that it had become unsanitary, crippled with prostitution, drug trafficking and incessant brawls around the maquis (open-air bars) and nightclubs. Yet, for twenty years, this huge festive artery in the Yopougon district had been considered a cultural showcase of Ivorian music and one of the most important nightlife spots in West Africa. Now in the midst of a renaissance, let’s take a look back at the history of what Abidjaners still refer to simply as “the street”.
L’Image (“The Image”) was the district’s first nightclub, opening on December 18th, 1991, under the impetus of two well-known Ivorian music producers: Constant Anagonou and Claude Bassolé. They teamed up with DJ Ben In The Booth and venue manager Jean-Charles Gouessé, aka “Charlie Nice-Eyes”. The latter, a testament to the close connections maintained by their team with the Ivorian showbiz scene, is a definitive element behind the venue’s success:
“We had a strategy: if the club was packed with lots of celebrities, the business would work. So we called Yves Zogbo Junior and Consty Eka, who were hosts for t