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Connexion BXL

Festival

In Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere, a generation of young artists are writing their own histories, of their lives and of their homelands. They are creating alternatives, inspired both by current events and by the past. They effortlessly blend languages, forms, and styles, and they don’t shy away from any of the issues.

 CONNEXION BXL presents work by both upcoming talent and established artists who have an enormous amount to offer Europe. There is no pessimism here, but energy, creativity, and determination. Surprising, inspiring and… imperative.

Presented by CONNEXION BXL, Kaaitheater, KVS, Beursschouwburg, Bozar, Jazz Station & RITCS

https://www.connexion.international/

Programmed in Connexion BXL:

Events

Dream Mandé – Djata

Rokia Traoré

music
theatre
14.12.2018

Rokia Traoré is an icon of African music. She narrates the epic of King Soundiata Keita, the King who based his power on respect and not on greed or violence, and the unifier of the great 13th-century Mandé Empire. Traoré blends classic songs by the Mandé griots into her narrative. These poets and singers were responsible for a unique form of oral history.

Dans la peau de l’autre

Pepe 'Elmas' Naswa

dance
15—17.12.2018

August 2016, a spring fair somewhere in Kinshasa. The young choreographer Pepe Elmas Naswa is watching an impressive snake dance, performed by a group of street kids and gang members. Afterwards, he convinces the kids to teach a group of contemporary dancers the snake dance during a workshop. This was when Dans la peau de l’autre was born.

Conversation #3: on Ubuntu philosophy

Mogobe Ramose

talk
17.12.2018

The South African philosopher Mogobe Ramose wrote the standard work on Ubuntu philosophy: a vision of existence as a continuous stream in which everything is constantly searching for balance and is inseparable connected with everything else.

[CANCELLED] Bootlegged

Boyzie Cekwana & Danya Hammoud

dance
18—19.12.2018

Unfortunately, we have to cancel both shows due to health issues of one of the dancers.

In the American Midwest in the 1880s, white people hid illegal alcohol in their boots when they traded with Native Americans – an effective strategy to neutralize rebellious Native Americans through drunkenness. ‘Bootlegging’ was born. Now we are presenting Bootlegged: an encounter between Boyzie Cekwana and Danya Hammoud: two bodies, two stories, and two histories.

DOUBLE BILL: Le Kombi + Ouled Jellaba

dance
22.12.2018