Épique ! (for Yikakou)

In 2023, choreographer Nadia Beugré travels to Yikakou, the village of her childhood in Côte d'Ivoire. A place that today seems "secret, fantastic" to her. But it no longer exists - overgrown fields, dried-up earth, the graves of her ancestors in between. Her father, grandfather and great-aunt, "the woman who says what she sees", rest here. The memory of her becomes the beginning of a thread that leads to other powerful but forgotten female figures.

Following her trilogy shown at SPIELART - LEGACY (2019), L'HOMME RARE (2021) and PROPHÉTIQUE (ON EST DÉJÀ NÉ.ES) (2023), in which she deconstructs gender roles, body norms and marginalized identities, Nadia Beugré now embarks on a personal search for traces: together with Salimata Diabate, who plays the balafon - a West African xylophone - and singer Charlotte Dali, the three women create a performative space in which music, movement and memory are interwoven. A polyphonic echo of intimate and collective memories.