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GERMAINE ACOGNY IN LOS ANGELES

Germaine Acogny—the mother of contemporary African dance and co-founder with her husband of L’Ecole des Sables, a school devoted to its practice—will make a rare local appearance this week as part of the CAP UCLA 2018–2019 season, performing MON ÉLUE NOIRE—SACRE #2.

Choreographed by Olivier Dubois, this tribute to Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps will run for three nights at the university’s intimate Kaufman Hall, with unreserved general-admission seating.

 

GERMAINE ACOGNY—MON ÉLUE NOIRE: SACRE #2

Friday and Saturday, October 5 and 6, at 8 pm.

Sunday, October 7, at 7 pm.

Kaufman Hall, UCLA, 120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles.

Germaine Acogny in Mon élue noire.

Above © François Stemmer.

Below image credit: Brooklyn Academy of Music.

OLIVIER DUBOIS’ TRAGÉDIE

Olivier Dubois has created with TRAGÉDIE his very own Sacre du printemps, or his own Boléro.” — Libération*

As part of this year’s Festival Paris l’été, Dubois brings back his dance work TRAGÉDIE.

“Experience a blinding, dazzling, deafening humanity. No longer able to distinguish individual bodies rising to the surface from masses in movement, the piece presents a quivering, archaic momentum. With TRAGÉDIE, Dubois plunges the audience into a sensation of the world beyond mere choreography. Humanity is not the simple fact of being a man or a woman and therein lies the tragedy of our existence, for it is only among bodies and through the earthbound pressures of our steps and our conscious, voluntary commitment that humanity will truly emerge.”*

 

COMPAGNIE OLIVIER DUBOIS – TRAGÉDIE, Thursday through Saturday, July 19, 20, and 21, at 10 pm.

LYCÉE JACQUES DECOUR, 12 Avenue Trudaine, 9th, Paris.

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dansedanse.ca/en/olivier-dubois-tragedie

Compagnie Olivier Dubois, Tragédie.

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UPCOMING DANCE FROM CAP UCLA

Mon Elue Noire

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company—whose collaboration with SITI Company, A Rite, brought down the house at Royce Hall three years ago—is returning to UCLA this autumn with ANALOGY TRILOGY, a marathon work that combines Analogy/Dora and Analogy/Lance with Analogy Ambros, based on a story by W. G. Sebald.

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The Jones/Zane company engagement is one of several dance presentations now on sale as part of the complete CAP UCLA 2018–2019 season. Other highlights include Germaine Acogny’s performance of Olivier DuboisMON ÉLUE NOIRE—SACRE #2Jérôme Bel’s GALA, the Quote Unquote Collective’s MOUTHPIECE, Batsheva’s VENEZUELA, and the Merce Cunningham celebration NIGHT OF 100 SOLOS.

Dates and tickets: cap.ucla.edu/calendar

From top: Germaine Acogny in Mon élue noire—Sacre #2, Batsheva Dance Company in Venezuela, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, photograph by Paul B. Goode.

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