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Balau

Dance theatre by Serge Aimé Coulibaly (Faso Danse Théâtre) with texts by Fiston Mwanza Mujila

 Therese-Giehse-Halle
 World premiere
 Premiere: 12.10.2024
 Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€
 Therese-Giehse-Halle
 World premiere
 Premiere: 12.10.2024
 Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€

A night in which joy and lamentation lie close together.

Serge Aimé Coulibaly is known for his expressive, energetic dance language which allows bodies and gestures to become immediately political. In “Balau”, a group of highly contrasting people live through a night and a day and experience events both beautiful and brutal that are completely unforeseen in the here and now of our complex world: weddings are celebrated; disasters unfold; lamentations are expressed. The astonishment, joy and grief arising in reaction to such events are referred to as “Balau” in the West African language of Dioula. For this performance, five actors from the Münchner Kammerspiele ensemble and three dancers come together in a community of fate formed of expressive bodies with the rhythmic language of Fiston Mwanza Mujila on their lips.

Following his celebrated dance guest performance “C la vie”, and having co-directed “Les statues rêvent aussi. Vision einer Rückkehr”, Coulibaly is now developing his first dance theatre piece for a German public theatre. The internationally acclaimed choreographer began his career as a dancer with Alain Platel and works and lives in both Burkina Faso and Belgium. For “Balau”, he is collaborating for the first time with the award-winning Congolese-Austrian writer Fiston Mwanza Mujila who is creating a new long-form poem for this work.

“I try to resist the usual ways of thinking and see things differently, partake in different perspectives and tell the story from the lion’s rather than the hunter’s point of view.”

– Serge Aimé Coulibaly, choreographer

  • Assistant to the choreographer Ahmed Soura
  • Assistant to the director Malene Pastor
  • Assistant Costume Designer Rafael Hinz
  • Assistant to the Stage Designer Katharina Quandt
  • Inspection Stefanie Rendtorff
  • Technical production management Carolin Husemann
  • Stage master Thomas Graml
  • Artistic Production Manager Victoria Fischer
  • Stage Design Intern Eloise Kent
  • Dramaturgy Intern Mete Baylan
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Dates & Tickets
Sat 12.10. 8 pm
Premiere
Mon 14.10. 8 pm
Thu 17.10. 8 pm
Mon 21.10. 8 pm
Fri 15.11. 8 pm
Sat 16.11. 8 pm
With sign language interpretation
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Balau
  • Therese-Giehse-Halle
  • World premiere
  • Premiere: 12.10.2024
  • Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€