| Year/Length: | 2021, 60’ (European premiere) |
|---|---|
| Choreographic direction: | Rafael Palacios |
| Choreographic assistance: | Yndira Perea Cuesta |
| Performance: | Yndira Perea Cuesta, Piter Alexander Angulo Moreno, Paula Valentina Benavides Villarreal, Andrea Bonilla Ospina, Diego León de los Ríos Naranjo, Liliana Hurtado Hinestroza, Maryeris Mosquera Batista, Jhoan Andrés Mosquera Ibarguen, Sandra Catalina Mosquera Moreno, Sandra Vanesa Murillo Mosquera, María Elena Murillo Palacios, Estayler Osorio Fuentes, William Camilo Perlaza Micolta |
| Lighting and stage design: | Álvaro Tobón |
| Costume design: | Diana Echandía |
| Research advice: | Carlos Correa |
| Music composition: | Juan José Luna Coha, Harold Enrique Tenorio, Kevin Leandro Cortes |
| Musicians: | Juan José Luna Coha, Gregg Anderson, Hudson Mitchell, Feliciano Blandón Salas |
| Acknowledgements for research and development: | (Research and development) Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 14th Book and Culture Festival, Plu con Pla, South Pacific Folkloric School Foundation TUMAC, Wangari Danza Afrocontemporánea, Nuevo Horizonte Music School - Tumaco, Afro- Colombian Integration House – Mayor's Office of Medellín, 4ESKUELA, Pedro Nel Gómez Museum, University of Manchester- England |
Dance
Sankofa Danzafro - Behind the South: Dances for Manuel
Description
Making its European premiere at the Biennale Danza is Behind the South: Dances for Manuel by the Afro-Colombian company Sankofa Danzafro. An homage to Colombian writer Manuel Zapata Olivella and his most famous work, Changó, el gran putas, the show adopts the five-act structure of the novel and recounts, in a succession of miraculous births, rebellions, and omens, the attempt to keep alive the connection with one's own land during the painful African diaspora.
Western dance and Afro-Colombian tradition blend in the choreographies of Rafael Palacios, a former student of Germaine Acogny. A powerful spectacle for a company that has toured the world and has much to tell. In Italy for the first time, Sankofa Danzafro, as their motto says, "Dances to be listened to and not to be seen!"