[Wadabo_updates] Lacina Coulibaly (Burkina Faso) in Performance

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Check this out! Lacina Coulibaly, who has been teaching the contemporary
African dance classes on Thursdays at the Dance Complex and Sundays at BeOne
will be performing at Green Street Studios this Friday! Go check it out!.


CRITICAL MOVES Contemporary Dance Series
presents

Coleman/Freedman
Zack Fuller (w/ Jonathan Vincent & Katt Hernandez)
Nell Breyer
Lacina Coulibaly

Friday April 14th at 8pm
@Green Street Studios, 185 Green Street (Central Square)
$16 general admission, $12 for students and members of Boston Dance Alliance
call 617-864-3191 for reservations (cash only at the door) more info at
http://www.criticalmoves.com/series or email
alissa at criticalmoves.com

Artists from New York, Boston, Western, MA and Burkina Faso perform six high
caliber works influenced by Butoh, Capoeira, new media, European modern and
West African dance traditions.  Themes such as the interface of live dance &
projected video (Coleman/Freedman), the physical limits of the human body
(Zack Fuller), fusions of traditional and contemporary style (Lacina
Coulibaly) and power and helplessness as it litters our history, politics
and personal experience (Nell Breyer) are explored in this dynamic
presentation.

The program for the evening includes
•   Coleman/Freedman: Performs three works which all explore the interface
of projected video and live dance action and mark a new direction in the
work of Terese Freedman and Jim Coleman. "talking heads" offers an elusive
debate between one live and 3 virtual talking heads over the virtues and
pretenses of contemporary dance; "on turning ten (after billy collins)" is a
surreal autobiographical look at the life of 10 year old Zoe Coleman, set to
a sound collage score that includes Billy Collins' poem of the same title;
"written in the body" is a collaboration with visual artist Neal Parks
exploring the relationship of artist and muse, featuring live
drawing, projected video imagery and live dance.

• Zack Fuller: having performed world-wide with Min Tanaka, butoh
dancer/physical theatre artist, and former protégé of Grotowski's muse
Ryszard Cieslak, Fuller premieres "Stations" with live music by Jonathan
Vincent and Katt Hernandez. A grotesque/beautiful, spiritual/toxic,
collaborative, dance/music/no-words theatre
performance: medieval in its structure.

• Nell Breyer: Capoeira's history molds oppression and self-defense, fight
and play out of the same act. As two people approach extreme closeness,
their split reactions belie vacillating cycles of trust, betrayal, freedom,
suppression, power and helplessness that litter our history, politics and
personal experience. (Originally premiered 2002 for the Dancespace Project
at St. Mark's Church)

• Lacina Coulibaly: Hailing from Burkina Faso director and choreographer of
the acclaimed La Compaigne Konga Ba Teria, Lacina is in Boston until May
2006 as the result of his ongoing residency at Brown University in
Providence, RI . Lacina has been working for years to develop his own unique
style that exists at the
intersection between the traditional styles of his home country, the
expressions that emerge from the exploration of the self, and the techniques
of European modern dance.

Tickets are $16 general admission, $12 for students and members of Boston
Dance Alliance.
Tickets may be reserved in advance by calling 617-864-3191 or
purchased at the door at Green Street Studios (cash only).

Critical Moves is curated by Alissa Cardone with the support of Green Street
Studios Center for Movement & Dance
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