Circus Baobab, based in Conakry, Guinea, has been a pioneer of the West African circus for the last twenty-five years, blending traditional African forms of expression with new contemporary circus writing. This show, created by Damien Droin, Yann Ecauvre and Bakala Camara, questions the resource of water with its thirteen virtuoso circus performers and dancers who, over frenetic rhythms, acrobatic stunts, dizzying human pyramids, contortions and corporal intertwining. Between earth and flight, tradition and modernity, initiation rites and climatic crises, this is a pure delight to be shared!
Circus Baobab, based in Conakry, Guinea, has been a pioneer of the West African circus for the last twenty-five years, blending traditional African forms of expression with new contemporary circus writing. This show, created by Damien Droin, Yann Ecauvre and Bakala Camara, questions the resource of water with its thirteen virtuoso circus performers and dancers who, over frenetic rhythms, acrobatic stunts, dizzying human pyramids, contortions and corporal intertwining. Between earth and flight, tradition and modernity, initiation rites and climatic crises, this is a pure delight to be shared!
BIOGRAPHY
> CIRCUS BAOBAB (Guinea)
Circus Baobab is a collective of circus artists from Guinea created in 1998, based on an idea by film-maker Laurent Chevallier, with the birth of the Guinea National Centre of Acrobatic Art by Baïlo Telivel Diallo. From the outset, the company has benefited from the artistic support of Pierrot Bidon, former director of Archaos, who has directed several of the company’s shows, blending the traditional forms of expression of the African circus with the new writing of the contemporary circus: La Légende du singe tambourinaire (2000), Les Tambours Sauteurs (2002) and Nimba (2003). Under the direction of Mory Diallo and Isabelle Sageque, the Franco-Guinean relationship will go from strength to strength, notably with the Térya Circus project, which flourished in Guinea and internationally between 2008 and 2021. Since then, with Yé ! (L’eau) [Water] (2022) and Yongoyély (the excisor) (2024), Circus Baobab is finally rising from its ashes under the impetus of Kerfalla Camara, working for a social, solidarity-based and civic-minded circus.
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