Waxtaan - Jant-Bi

WAXTAANGERMAINE ACOGNYSenegalese dancer and choreographerProduction Association Jant-Bi - SenegalArtistic Director Germaine ACOGNYChoreography Germaine ACOGNY and PatrickACOGNY, in collaboration with the dancers.Music Oumar Fandy DIOP and the drummersof the Ecole des SablesLighting creation Horst MÜHLBERGERLight technician Marco WEHRSPANNSet design Patrick ACOGNYCostumes Patrick ACOGNY / Germaine ACOGNYCompany Manager Helmut VOGTSenegalese and French, she founded her first dancestudio in Dakar in 1968. Thanks to the influenceof the dances she had inherited from her grandmother,a Yoruba priest, Germaine Acogny hasgiven birth to her own technique of Modern AfricanDance, which she explains in her book “AfricanDance” edited in 3 languages in 1980.Between 1977 and 1982, she was director of MudraAfrique (Dakar), created by Maurice Bejart and theSenegalese president L. S. Senghor.Since that time, she dances, produces, choreographsand teaches all over the world, becoming a realemissary of the African Dance and Culture.Together with her husband, Helmut Vogt, shefounded in 1985, in Toulouse, France, the«Studio-Ecole-Ballet-Theatre du 3e Monde».Her work was highly plebiscited in 1987, with avideo clip for Peter Gabriel and the creation of herfirst solo «Sahel».In 1995, she decided to go back to Senegal, tocreate The International Centre for Traditional andContemporary African Dances, The Ecole des Sables,a meeting place for dancers from Africa and all overthe world, a place of education for dancers with theobjective of guiding them towards a ContemporaryAfrican Dance.In 1997, she became Artistic Director of the « Dancesection of Afrique en Creation », Paris, and theAfrican Choreographic Encounters, a function sheheld until September 2000.Her latest solo “Tchouraï” has been produced inthe most prestigious theatres and festivals aroundthe world.PATRICK ACOGNYChoreographer, dancer, teacherChoreographer and dancer, Patrick has worked inParis with the company Ebene of Irene Tassembedo(Burkina Faso), before settling in Birmingham(United Kingdom) to direct Kokuma Dance Theatre,an African and Carribean dance company, during6 years.Now he is based in Brittany (France). Patrick isregularly invited in various European and Africancountries to work with professionals and amateurs.Patrick is equally a university researcher with theethnoscenology laboratory of Paris VIII (Saint-Denis). He is presently doing a PhD on AfricanDance Forms.TOUR REPRESENTATIONUnited States / AsiaCathy Pruzan, USATel. 1 –415– 789 5051Email : cpruzan@aol.comFrance / EuropePatrick PerninAssociation Scènes de la Terre, Paristel. : 33(0) 1 48 05 92 41mobile : 33(0) 6 07 16 55 44Email : p_pernin@hotmail.comGermany / EuropeHelga Müller-Serre, GermanyTel. : 49 (0) 221 91 74276Mobile : 49 (0) 177 584 6084Email : helgamserre@aol.comCO-PRODUCERSResidency creation inThéâtre de Chateau Rouge / AnnemasseCoproduction and supports:Fondation Prince Claus/Nederlands,Het MuziekTeater/Amsterdam,Grand Theatre de la Ville de Luxembourg,SEBT 3eme Monde/Toulouse.COMPANY JANT BI CONTACTSenegal :BP 22626 - 15523 Dakar – SenegalEmail : jantbi@gmail.comT : 221 (0) 836.23.88T / F : 221 (0) 836.36.19France :24, rue Léonce Castelbou31000 Toulouse - FranceEmail : jant-bi.acogny@wanadoo.frT : 33 (0) 5.61.23.17.75F : 33 (0) 5.61.23.34.04www.jantbi.orgPhotos © Thomas Dorn artwork bialek & buelow