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 creative adventure is led by choreographer Richard Segal. The dance studio is located behind a gas station in the middle of an Industrial Area the dancers know each other some of them met while the project. I was in the Development Stage others have danced on stage with siegel he is. The beginning was incredible when he came on the music loud on all the n. F. C. If they felt. Their energy is contagious i think theyre amazing. The. Choreography is done. And done and weve done that its a volatile art form and at times its useful. To see release some kind of Latent Energy which may still exist within the world. We have this down so thats choreographed 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 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 and thats just thats exactly. What we came for we have a situation where of we can hyper dogs 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. Jammy a few months earlier the ballet of difference company was Getting Started the Diverse Group of dances are among the best in the world some with 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. Numbers shes. Trying for an album. For him. Around from. 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 meigs of friction. Thats 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 to be. 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 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 know the performance and so did the dancers but Richard Segal choreography is a process so hes revising the pains 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 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 it goes. In my case i have for. I have to argue with frank who is a energy bomb. And i think we have good completely different bodies so my body i realize working with him that its really a rag i can squish in Different Directions and hes a great impact 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 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 chord so i think we have a direction. That is. Chosen to mr x. For me to studios so when i was in the flat it was ok to do good to others because i. Have to work for it every day that. L. A. Is not natural like it turning out like they did saying all of that its not a natural self it makes or saying. That she simply just its a little different because im more at home in African Dance afro dance. In the course 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 of minos 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 but in classical ballet by and large you always keep your shoulders over your hips fired right further clear. In these styles since. Thats african styles and what the 1st thing that i put on imitating when im trying to do the stats is there is the posture of yourselves and of course as soon as you bring your you or your soldiers in front of your its and you bend your knees and you can you and your lecture lecture but pullbacks theres a lot of movement potential. This. Is 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 them years ago 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. To see the lives in madrid and travels to various european cities to work on you productions. He 1st learned about afro caribbean danced in the late 1900 small study youll. Be amongst himself in the city status culture and quickly realized the benefits that the diversity could bring to contemporary Dance Society had changed fundamentally since establishment of classical ballet as he does still practiced in many places segal felt compelled to reflect this in this comic opera faith. So the 1st time we ran it with the drums i thought it was really on top of the of the counts anyway builds up in the council and the 2nd time i lost becomes completely halfway through because we have certain accents also in the electronic feed that i yeah yeah i take as a cue yeah so. In the end i dont know my caribbean part just came out. Of. Korea graffiti that reflects todays multinational and multicultural societies that siegels trademark here and like us its easy to see how the contributions of dances 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 pulled boundaries. The job he was the freedom of this president ial experimental so what do you think itll be like bring it all to bring it all the best in those. Who got to win what he was led to do. Just my piece this mouthpiece you know message its very effective not going to be silent so youre like oh come on like 3 do it they want to now you will regain this into your piece thank you so much. Thank you but i do expect you know that today in the coming days more and more to let their vocabulary. Enter and survive as a choreography force were starting here because it gives us a good. Scaffolding on which to hang the other our other rather fancy but im sure thats the way that its going. To. Dance in the streets baby wings has been listening to you know what is coming no no like we have to make it seem to our community wouldnt we have to change them we are educating them one dance before performers show i teach kiddies all today so that i think that this will come on its also dances dances that is like. That is everything. Bad. Lagos is often disparaged as a sprawling dystopian cauldron of a city but it has a rich cultural sing with concerts and open air performances like this one honoring the life and work of afrobeat pioneer 10 you can change. The seed of coexistence of livestock those deaths star wars and of cultures. Back and share the stage during the. American morning phone from. Valley of difference does. Give expression to the form for. Diversity openness 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 stage the premiere of the new going to court made for walking. Its an intimate chamber of play and like you need takes to music is by some african poly rhythms. Hes working with polly went on 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 room very new so this sort of like rounded out 8 count or a 34 1 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. And a half its been kind of difficult so i 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 will actually occur is like. He was saying. African songs and dances and like natural read then but to sort of break it down and talents and so that we can visually kind of play with that yeah exactly in each of them 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 probably 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 do this is cool and its just like the letters so you can connect can i see just just the hand phrase yeah. Yeah. Yeahs its a language. The language its for vibe to talk and drum talks and prove. The talking german tells you when it wants to to move your hand when no one through to move your legs so we dont just dance with listening to drama its like you warning. I dont speak the language we need a bridge there with a guy whos ball is like trying to. Be yourself. Ice thats really interesting listening to your own rhythm and be yourself and insisting on the integrity of your. Your way in and in the world at this and he took that initiative was a very interesting tricks for him to tell you. What is it worth to you so thats what we did we tried to remember right there and 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 this my music to the. Church. Today became more incorporated in the body the things we learned the last 2 days and all of this all these speeds is just kind of fused in my body with also the classical training because the last few days i was surfing bad for being a big classical and then today it just all came together and i wasnt really judging it. In the event that. The drumming was for made for walking was about. Being yourself about being yourself. And your own son still reading your own rhythm box yeah i. Dont even see its dont imitate him its 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 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 the same way you were leading before ordering you going to follow up odds with people who show you for you if you watch is really cool if you want to make music if you want to make music yeah. Its a community. I like the idea of open and and let me just have and let it have and what also all that is said that you know only. Let let it happen and let it affect you. 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