Danse Africaine Modern
actual experience of the dance

Koffi Kôkô familiar with African dance in his home country Benin from childhood on focuses on the relation of the student to her/his own body and the symbolism of the gestures used in African dances. Repetition of the dances in harmony with the music will allow the participants to actually experience the dance.



Koffi Kôkô
Koffi Kôkô is a Voodoun priest in his native Benin and also one of the most accomplished modern dancers, choreographers and dance scientists of Africa. His dance is rooted in ritual, e.g. initiation to conversing with gods and nature. His encounter with the western world set off a process of transposing his ritual experience into a sophisticated body language, that incorprates both techniques and expressions of modern dance and contemporary theatre. Koffi Kôkô lives in Paris since the Nineteen Eighties and commutes between Europe and Africa.