Its japan. Europe africa a mixture of. Lagos nigeria population more than 20000000 a small group of dancers 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 siegel. The dance studio is located behind a gas station in the middle. An Industrial Area the defenses know each other some of them met while the project was in the Development Stage others have danced on stage with siegel for years. The beginning was incredible when it became i mean did it music loud or else the m f 3 if they felt. Their energy is contagious i think their amazing. Choreography is done. Redone and redone and weve done that means its a volatile art form and at times its useful. To still release some kind of Latent Energy which may still exist within the world. We have this downs thats choreograph we can teach parts of we can modify parts of that but it shouldnt if its not just in one direction thats what im what im saying the important thing is exactly what just 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 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 to translate and really see the other. Jimmy 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. The perfect time for album. Of. Robin on top of. The 2 terms ballet on one hand and difference on the other. Appear 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 in an infile it art form 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 different value of conservation and progression of innovation and heritage. And makes a friction. That thats thats not only very productive but i think its very necessary i think thats exactly what we need. d images of diversity images of coexist. Images of power. Its a positive optimistic hopeful. Attitude toward our future. Of our art form of our society. That doesnt also discount perhaps the obligation for us as artists to also express friction uncomfortable moment that were passing through as a society in our steps toward a more perfect future. In 22 of the institute invited siegel to conduct a Dance Workshop in lagos that was a key point in the development of these major would. 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 all over and we were working in an old dilapidated printing factory in the middle of the city that was just one concrete open space. Of course there was a strong african. Flavor vocabulary in the piece and the traces of that are very much in the in the ballet and what gives it that certain line thats very exciting to watch. What began as a workshop with african downstairs which i was making the movement and they were translating my vocabulary then underwent another translation process and ultimately became the ballet unit text. The public the performance and so did the dancers but Richard Segal choreography is a process so hes revising the case 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 is will 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 i have to argue with frank who is a energy problem. And i think we have good completely different bodies so my body i realize working with him that its really right i can twist in Different Directions and hes great even mocked its very strong so its that he he gets the steps in a different way sometimes and its a really 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 it more and some but maybe we have a direction. Just because. The. Shows would suit mr x. For me to studios so when i was in the flat it was hard to do good to others because i. Have to work for it every day to get. Ballet its not natural like its turning out like a website and all of that its not a natural self it makes for saying. That she simply just its a little different because im more at home in African Dance afro dance. I have a dance school in ivory coast 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. That. You know im watching them work right now its really interesting for such some of some of the vocabulary of human textures is quite electric now lets call it that in classical ballet and by and large you always keep your shoulders over your hips fired right further clear. In these styles of. Dancing 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 yourselves and of course as soon as you bring your your or your shoulders in front of your kids and you bend your knees and you can you and your lecture lecture but those bags theres a lot of movement potential this. Guy. Who got this group of african drummers coming tomorrow and i think it would be really interesting among other things to do it 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 work on your productions. He 1st learned about afro caribbean dance in the late 1918 small study youll. Be immersed himself in the citys dance culture and quickly realize the benefits that the diversity could bring to contemporary Dance Society had changed so fundamentally since establishment of classical ballet as it is still practiced in many places segal felt compelled to reflect this in his coming up graffiti. 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 live in the council and the 2nd time i lost it becomes completely halfway through because we have certain accents also in the electronic feet yeah yeah i take as a cue yeah so. In the end i dont like caribbean part just came out. Hurry up refuse it reflects todays multinational and multicultural societies that siegels trademark here in like us its easy to see how the contributions of dancers from diverse ethnic backgrounds can enhance a performance it doesnt matter where the dancers were born they find a common language of artistic creation the blues pulled boundaries. The job he was the freedom of expresses their own experimental saying what they think you know like bring it all to bring it all the best in those codelco guy when no one lets you would. Its that though despite these discoveries you know most would say its respect its not going to be silent so youre like oh come on like 3 do it they want to now youre bringing this into your piece thank you so much. Thank you but i do expect you know it today in the coming days for more and more to let their vocabulary. Enter and survive as a choreography force were starting here because it gives us a great. Scaffolding on which to hang the other our other rather fancy but im sure thats the way that its going. Down since hes been away has been always in danger you know that hes coming no no like we have to make it seem to our community would then we had the children we are educating them worn down and go for performers sure i teach getting us all to this but i think that this will come on its also dances dances dances like. That is everything. Lagos is often disparaged as a sprawling distant paean cauldron of a city but it has a rich cultural scene with concerts and opening up performances like this one honoring the life and work of afrobeat piney and tell you can change. The seed a coexistence of lifestyles and that styles and of cultures back can share the stage then the. Only point im going to come from. The. Valley of difference. Does give expression to the form for that diversity openness of of. Spirit. Curiosity about the other or everything you know frankly with without discriminating without making a hierarchy that these things can coexist. Sequel recently staged the premiere of a new want to cool made for walking. Its an intimate chamber of play and like unique takes the music is 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 door. Just because when you think of life being a musical dancer and this are very new so this sort of like rounded out a count or a 34 or 24 or 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. Its in kind of difficult so why keep it all in your head at the same time but at the same time its a nice scientific experiment so breaks down something that actually when actually occurs. African songs and dances and like natural read then but just sort of break it down and counts and so that we can visually kind of play with it yeah exactly in each of their in their in their bodies theyre describing to rhythms and then those 2 rhythms are combining with the other ones as well so we get even more poly rhythm i just figured ok as long as we have 3 out of 4 of the dancers here as long as made for walking is based on the rhythm specifically african drum theory then its only fitting that we should we should experiment a bit while we have a big room full of drummers Edition School ill. Just play the letters so you can connect can i see just just the hand phrase yeah. Yeah. Its a language. The language its only about. The talking drum talks improve on. The talking 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 drama its like a warning. I dont speak that language we need a bridge there with a guy whos ball is like trying to the job with the. Ice thats just really interesting listening to your own rhythm between yourself and insisting on the integrity of your. Your way in and in the world that he took that initiative was a very interesting choice for him to tell you. What you were sealed up so thats what we did we tried to remember right there right then right there without the assistance of video of. Some of the tiriel and remits actually to you know to restructure. And on top of that we later than. This my music into. The. City. Today it became more incorporated in the body of the things we learned the last 2 days and all this all these speeds is just kind of fused in my body with all sort of the classical training because the last 2 days i was so feeling bad for being a big classical and then today it just all came together and i wasnt really judging it. To. Be. The drumming it was for made for walking was about. Being yourself right about being yourself. And dance to your own dont still reading your own rhythm box yeah. It goes in the kids dont imitate it. Just be yourself and follow your own direction 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 people 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 the same way you alluded before if were going to do this were going to follow up odds that it was really for you if your box is really cool if you want to make music if you want to make music yeah then ill. Do the same theory. I like the idea of open and and let me just have a good head and what also all of a adam said that you know. And i cant help and let it affect you. 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