You can snatch everything from a person except his dream, his imagination, his illusion. Stories are subject to all kinds of change over the course of time. But how can we remix bodies, memories or opinions?
Four artists find themselves in an imaginary space and decide to appropriate it. They want to redefine it and tell it in their own way – in a world that is constantly changing.
The Remix explores how we can rewrite our history, individually or collectively – according to our own imagination – and what means we use to build or dream up this imaginary world… The ideas are there, but conflicts arise, as do differing or concurring points of view.
The remix is a strategy of musical composition and innovation. The main characteristic of a remix is that it appropriates and alters other materials to create something new. The company translates this practice into musical rearrangements, dance and choreography, because the remix involves the coexistence of different artists in one and the same work. It facilitates evolution and development and opens up the possibility of a potentially endless creative process. The material to be remixed lies with the artists, just like a say in the shaping of an entire society. “But what can we do when everything has already happened? History is the past. How about we take it up again!” Adonis Nebié
Adonis Nébié, dancer and choreographer from Burkina Faso, works for The Remix with the renowned musician Sébastien Martel.
THE REMIX is part of africologneCONCERT.
CHOREORAPHY Adonis Nébié | COMPOSITION & LIVE MUSIC Sébastien Martel | DESIGN Clara Lou Walter | DANCERS:INSIDE Adonis Nébié, Jolie Nguema, Sayouba Sigué | PRODUCTION Cie Teguerer danse | CO-PRODUCTION africologne | WITH THE SUPPORT OF Montpellier Danse, Accueuil studio, Fraternative (Roubaix), Studio Ego (Lille) | The residency in Cologne was supported by the City of Cologne.
africologneCONCERT is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The Burkinabe dancer and choreographer Adonis Nébié was born in the Ivory Coast. Trained at Germaine Acogny’s École des Sables in Senegal and at Ballet Prejloca, he has worked with Serge Aimé Coulibaly (Faso Danse Théâtre), Irène Tassembedo, Olivier Tarpaga, Nadia Beugré and Vera Sander, among others. In 2016, he was selected for the European Union’s 1Space project with Ballets C de la B as a partner, which took him to Ramallah in Palestine, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo. These experiences led to the duet Blood Brother with the Palestinian Ahmed Tobasi at Ballet C de la B in Ghent, with which he also performed at africologneFESTIVAL in 2017. With his company Teguerer Danse, he created the piece Assembl’âge, a work commissioned by the Hamburg Schauspielhaus. Since 2011 he has been working with Serge Aimé Coulibaly(Kohuma 7 degré Sud, Nuit blanche à Ouagadougou, Kalakuta Republic, Kirina and Wakatt). He also made a guest appearance at africologne with his solo Spirit . Adonis Nébié gives master classes throughout Europe on the artistic approach of the Cie. Faso Danse Théâtre.