Its japan. Europe africa a mixture of. Lagos nigeria population more than 20000000 a small group of dances has arrived from germany they aim to create a new kind of ballet that will include the best of western and african influences. This creation of adventure is led by choreographer richard segal. The dance studio is located behind a gas station. In the middle of an Industrial Area the dances know each other some of them met while the project was in the Development Stage others have danced on stage with siegel he is. The beginning was incredible when he came running to music loud on all the n. F. C. If they feel. Their energy is contagious i think theyre amazing. The. Choreography is done. Redone and redone and weve done that its a ball of tile art form at times its useful. Just release some kind of Latent Energy which may still exist within the world. We have this downs thats choreographed we can teach you parts of we can modify parts of that but it shouldnt its not just in one direction thats what im what im saying the important thing is exactly what has happened when we walked into the room and you guys were dancing and the music was good and we started going and everybody just started dancing and now im a sweaty mess. Thats exactly. What we came for we have a a situation where we can hybridize or as long as were open as long as we learn from one another as long as we are. Ready to translate and really see the other. Gemini a few months earlier the ballet of difference company was Getting Started the Diverse Group of dancers are among the best in the world some left prestigious Dance Companies to work with siegel people have come to work people have come because theyre because theyre passionate about dancing in general and about dancing together in this group specifically. And the ideas that are motivating. Siegal challenges the traditions and rules of classical ballet especially in his work you need text. For album for. Your art for an. Album for. The 2 terms ballet on one hand and difference on the other. Appeared to be oppositional they appear to be oppositional. On one hand ballet. If i say that word it immediately elicits ideas of conservation and of and of heritage in coded in art in an infile it art. Something that really that really has contour. And on the other hand we have this idea of different thats the world that we live in today very very much so and its messy. And its complex and its boundaries are not clear and its its still forming its its process its process and its passionate and contained within it a lot of energy and putting these 2 things together of difference and ballet of conservation and progression of innovation and heritage and makes of friction. Thats a thats thats not only very productive but i think its very necessary i think thats exactly what we need. Images of diversity images of coexistence. Images of power. Its a positive optimistic hopeful. Attitude toward our future. Of our art form numbers a society. That doesnt also discount perhaps the obligation for us as artists to also express the friction uncomfortable moment that were passing through as a society in our steps toward a more perfect future. In 2012 because the institution invited siegel to conduct a Dance Workshop in lagos that was a key point in the development of his major work uni takes to. I was invited by the Good Institute to come and make something for their festival that they were that they were having there and they brought together a group of west african downstairs from open space. Of course there was a strong African Dance flavor of the cabbie larry in the piece and the traces of that are very much in the and in the ballet and and what gives it that certain line thats very exciting to watch. What began as a workshop with African Dancers which i was making the movement and they were translating my vocabulary then underwent another translation process. And ultimately became the ballet going to text. The public to the performance and so did the dancers but richard seemed to choreography is a process so hes revising the piece to bring it closer to his original concept. So i think the best thing to do would be to just actually kind of pair you up and what will end up doing as well have well have you know 2 people doing doing the same thing but then i think were going to start to make little modifications to it as as a as a ghost. In my case i have frank to argue with frank who is a energy bomb. And i think we have put a completely different bodies on the conservative body and i realize working with him that its really a rag lichens waste in Different Directions and hes a great impact its a very strong so its that he he gets the steps in a different way from the ones that have siri interesting because i also dont speak french and when he speaks well hes basically im trying to count in french for him as well trying to translate basis just for the body so we dont know we all have a possibility to share a chord so i think we have a mix of. Chosen to mr x. For we just didnt use so when i saw the flash it would that have been told to do good to others. I have to work for it every day to get. Laid its not natural like good its turning out like they did saying all of that its not a natural self it just makes for saying. That she simply just gets a little different because im more at home in African Dance afro dance. I have a dance school in ivory coast so i do performance as a choreographer and performer. But my dance is african afro dance afro beat and all that. With richard its very different with richard its classical contemporary afro japanese march choreography its japan. Europe. Africa a mixture. You know im watching them work right now its really interesting to start some of some of the vocabulary of you know textures is quite electric now its called back in classical ballet by and large you always keep your shoulders over your hips fighting right vertically and these styles of. African styles and what the 1st thing that im that im imitating what im trying to do the stats is there is the posture of course and of course as soon as you bring your or your shoulders in front of your its in your bend your knees and you can you and your lecture measure but those bags theres a lot of movement potential. It is weve got this group of african drummers coming tomorrow and i think it would be really interesting among other things to do with that would be to actually change the music you know switch the music out see what happens and for that the best thing would be if we could push it a little bit further the choreography a little bit further so it felt more more secure before we swapped the music out. Siegel lives in madrid and travels to various european cities to would productions. He 1st learned about afro caribbean danced in the late 1900 small study in new york. He immersed himself in the citys stats culture and quickly realized the benefits that the diversity could bring to contemporary Dance Society has changed so fundamentally since you stopped listening to classical ballet as it is still practiced in many. Nices siegel felt compelled to reflect this in this comic opera face. So the 1st time we ran it with the drums i thought it was really on top of the of the counts anyway yes i know but in the council on the 2nd time i lost because it comes completely halfway through because we have certain accents also in the electronic feed that yeah yeah i take as a cue yes so. In the end i dont know my caribbean part just came out. Of. Choreography that reflects todays multinational and multicultural societies that siegels trademark here and like us its easy to see how the contributions of dancers from diverse ethnic backgrounds can enhance a performance it doesnt matter where the dances were born they find a common language of artistic creation the blues food boundaries. The job he was the freedom of the press are still experimental so what do you think you know like when you know it does bring out the best in those could definitely one lets you do its just my piece this mouthpiece you know my sweetie is not going to sign it so youre like come on like 3 you do anything you want to but now youre bringing this into your piece thank you so much. Thank you and i do expect you know it today in the coming days more and more to let their vocabulary. And turned into the choreography course were starting here because it gives us a good. Scaffolding on which to hang the other or other rather graphic but im sure thats the way that its going. Down soon its just been the way theyve always been lingering you know just let me know like we have to make a scene so our community would then have to chill down we have a good sunday morning dance and go from a show i teach getting us all to this so that i think that this will come on its also dances dances dances like this. Thats just everything. Lagos is often disparaged as a sprawling dystopian cauldron of a city but it has a rich cultural saying with concerts and open air performances like this one honoring the life and work of afrobeat pioneer that you can change. To see a coexistence of life styles and death styles and of culture. Back and share the stage there in the. Morning hong kong from. The. Valley of difference does give expression to that form for for that diversity and openness of of. Spirit and curiosity about the other or everything you know frankly and with without discriminating without making a hierarchy that these things can coexist. Siegel recently staged the premiere at the new one a cool. Made for walking. Its an intimate chamber play and like you need takes the music by some african poly rhythms. Hes working with polly with this which means that theres multiple resumes happening in the body at the same time and yet its been a challenge i think for all of us to go through that store. Just because when you think of like being a musical dancer and this are very new so this sort of like rounded out a count or a 34 1 24 or something thats very kind of measurable and these are all over the place and like a 5 and a 7 and 8 and a 3. And a half its in time its a focal to like keep it all in your head at the same time but at the same time its one in my scientific experiment so break down something that actually will actually occur is like he was saying and African Songs and dances and like natural rhythms but just sort of break it down into counts and so that we can visually kind of play with it you know exactly in each of the in the in their bodies theyre describing to the rhythms and then those 2 rhythms are combining with the other ones as well so we get even more called the rhythm just figured ok as long as we have 3 out of 4 of the dancers here as long as made for walking based on the rhythm. Specifically african drum theory that its only fitting that we should we should experiment a bit while we have a big room full of drummers do this in school i dont believe just by doing that just so you can connect can i see just just the hand phrase yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah its a language. The language its only about for over. The talking drum talks and crew vibe. The talk in german tells you when it wants you to move your hand when you once are to move your legs so we dont just dance with listening to the drama its like a warning as to what i dont speak that language we needed a bridge there with i did i call it like trying to. Be the types thats really interesting listening to your own rhythm between yourself and insisting on the integrity of your. Your way in and in the world that theres then he took that initiative was a very interesting choice for him to tell you. What you were sealed up so thats what we did tried to remember right there right then right there without the assistance of video. Some of the tiriel and remits actually to you know to restructure it. And on top of that we layer then as this live music to get. To they became more incorporated in the body of the things we learned in the last 2 days yet all this all these speeds is just kind of a few. In my body with also the classical training because the last few days i was surfing for being a bit classical and then today it just all came together and it wasnt really challenging it. To. Be. The drumming was for made for walking was about. Being yourself rather about being yourself. And dance to your own son still rooted in your own rhythm of the royal box. Of those in the seats dont imitate. Just be yourself although you all day reaction which is interesting because in the piece actually its a lot about following but its also a lot about leading up to saving time and always trying to find this useful measure between leading and following and the question the central question is who who will lead if no one follows and who will follow if no one leaves where you were leading before or going to win the follow up odds are that it will show you for you if your part is really cool if you want to make music if you want to make music yeah a member. To tell you. I like the idea of open and and like it just let it happen and what all saw and they hadnt said that you know oh let the lead. And let it affect you know. What can i do like going together a group of of people of artists who share the attitude or at least we are cultivated be out of today were trying. Were trying. Were in a position to be. The world better. To repair the world. As one might say it is our obligation. The idea of repairing the world is its not mine i inherited that. This is my own tradition of my parents of the jewish tradition that i come out of to come along is that is the is the he grew translation of proposed repairing the world. And i look at it and i want to own that i can decide what values i want to own that the idea of repairing the world yes its a grand notion but. You know whats happened whats wrong with having values we all have that power culture belongs to only the people who decide to own it. 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