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Kotchegna Dance Company

Title
Kotchegna Dance Company [electronic resource] / artistic direction by Vado Diomande ; choreography by Vado Diomande, Bi Boti George and Maguette Camara.
Publication
c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Nakae, Mami
  • Yao, Afoue
  • Hernández, Lisa.
  • Rhem, Darlene
  • Ingram, Candace
  • Diomande, Sogbety
  • Brooks, Herb
  • Papa (Dancer), active 1998.
  • Dahoue, Mamadou
  • Diomande, Vado
  • George, Bi Boti
  • Camara, Maguette
  • Niang, Mamadou.
  • Kotchegna Dance Company.
  • New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 streaming video file (76 min.) : sd., col. NTSC
Summary
Program of dance and music drawn from different regional styles of the Ivory Coast. The performers are introduced orally at the end of the program. Audience members, including children, join in informal dancing afterwards.
Alternative Title
Retour de Vado
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Note
  • Program title: Retour de Vado.
  • Accompanied by house program.
  • Recording made possible by the cooperation of Kotchegna Dance Company, Djoniba Dance and Drum Centre, Mamadou Niang and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
  • Costumes, Lisa Hernandez.
Performer (note)
  • Danced by Kotchegna Dance Company. Female dancers: Mami Nakae, Afoue Yao, Lisa Hernandez, Darlene Rhem, Candace Ingram. Male dancers: Vado Diomande, Sogbety Diomande, Bi Boti George, Maguette Camara, Herb Brooks, Papa.
  • Drummers: Djo-Bi-Irie Simon, Tra-Bi Lizie, Sogbety Diomande, Madou Dembele, Gogbeu Boyon Privat.
  • Guest artist: Mamadou Dahoue, director of the Ancestral Messengers.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in performance at Djoniba Dance and Drum Centre, New York, on December 12, 1998 ; director and videographer, Mamadou Niang.
Funding (note)
  • Recording made possible by the assistance of grants from the New York State Council of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Contents
  • Prologue / choreography, Bi Boti George.
  • Part I / script and choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance work featuring the Gue-pelou (masked stilt dance) ; dance forms borrowed from Boloye (Senoufo tribe), Bademalon (Mahoka) and Ngnalon (Mahoka and Yakuba).
  • Part II. Abodan / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance to bring happiness during rituals (Baoulé tribe).
  • Temate / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance of beauty and nobility, executed by young girls and boys to celebrate a good rice harvest (We tribe).
  • Kong / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance demonstrating men's power (Kong tribe).
  • Mamian / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance depicting young people's special role in traditional society (Yacouba).
  • Dende / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance with bars, demonstrating people's ability and potential.
  • Ngoron / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance for girls in the last stage of their initiation into womanhood, demonstrating their gracefulness (Senoufo).
  • Mandiani / choreography, Maguette Camara ; celebration dance that originated in Guinea and spread throughout West Africa.
  • Zagrobi / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance symbolizing rivalry (Bete).
  • Solo / choreography and performance, Mamadou Dahoue.
  • Zaouly / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance of rejoicing and mourning.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3302
OCLC
NYPY99-F265
Title
Kotchegna Dance Company [electronic resource] / artistic direction by Vado Diomande ; choreography by Vado Diomande, Bi Boti George and Maguette Camara.
Imprint
c1998.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Performer
Danced by Kotchegna Dance Company. Female dancers: Mami Nakae, Afoue Yao, Lisa Hernandez, Darlene Rhem, Candace Ingram. Male dancers: Vado Diomande, Sogbety Diomande, Bi Boti George, Maguette Camara, Herb Brooks, Papa.
Drummers: Djo-Bi-Irie Simon, Tra-Bi Lizie, Sogbety Diomande, Madou Dembele, Gogbeu Boyon Privat.
Guest artist: Mamadou Dahoue, director of the Ancestral Messengers.
Credits
Costumes, Lisa Hernandez.
Event
Videotaped in performance at Djoniba Dance and Drum Centre, New York, on December 12, 1998 ; director and videographer, Mamadou Niang.
Funding
Recording made possible by the assistance of grants from the New York State Council of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
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Local Subject
Mask dances.
Stilt dances.
Added Author
Nakae, Mami, dancer.
Yao, Afoue, dancer.
Hernández, Lisa. cst, dancer.
Rhem, Darlene, dancer.
Ingram, Candace, dancer.
Diomande, Sogbety, dancer.
Brooks, Herb, dancer.
Papa (Dancer), active 1998.
Dahoue, Mamadou, choreographer, dancer.
Diomande, Vado, choreographer, dancer.
George, Bi Boti, choreographer, dancer.
Camara, Maguette, choreographer, dancer.
Niang, Mamadou. Director
Kotchegna Dance Company.
New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
DHCA.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3302
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