abstract

In a modern, spare set design, a multiethnic company (Ivory Coast, Senegal, Iran and Italy) composed of actors, singers and dancers and a group of musicians in an electro-acoustic ensemble tell the story of Sogolon the Ugly and her son Sunjata through a declared theatrical game.
One of the most interesting West-African myths is told in the universal language of dance, music and images.
A gestural fairytale. A story told by suggestion.

give the way

Sundjata receives the power by his mother

Yako

King Maghan is dead

Sogolon

The dance of the veils

the call

The King Maghan is dead

everything is hidden in the dirt

prophecies by the hidden world

the two wives

began the diatribe