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Three dance artists bend over in towards each other on a black stage. They are topless with words written in white paint all over their torsos and arms. They have short black pants and bare feet.
Three dance artists bend over in towards each other on a black stage. They are topless with words written in white paint all over their torsos and arms. They have short black pants and bare feet.

Performance | Global Dance Connections series

Smail Kanouté/ Compagnie Vivons!

Never Twenty One

Smail Kanouté is a French-Malian dancer, choreographer, film maker, visual artist and designer based in Paris. Echoing the hashtag #Never21 coined by the Black Lives Matter movement, Never Twenty One pays tribute to the young Black men who have been victims of gun violence in New York, Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg – and will never reach the age of 21. Three powerful dancers – their torsos inscribed with testimonials from the victims’ families – recount the stories of broken lives, through ferociously intense movement which draws on krump, popping, contemporary dance, baile funk and pasinho. This is an urban requiem steeped in a shamanistic heritage, a subtle lamentation infused with energy, poetry and humanity.

There will be ASL interpretation and a post-show talkback at the January 21 performance.

PROGRAM

  • Thursday-Saturday January 19-21, 2023 | 8pm

  • Scotiabank Dance Centre

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  • $34

  • 60 min

  • Recommended for ages 14+. Includes strobe lighting

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About the series:

The Global Dance Connections 2022-2023 series features exciting contemporary dance works by artists from Canada and around the world.

Scroll down for show details.

Includes:

  • Jeanette Kotowich

    Friday September 30-Saturday October 1, 2022 | 8pm

  • Justine A. Chambers & Laurie Young

    Thursday-Friday October 13-14, 2022 | 8pm

  • Compagnie d’Autres Cordes – Franck Vigroux

    Thursday-Saturday October 20-22, 2022 | 8pm

  • Corporeal Imago

    Thursday-Saturday November 17-19, 2022 | 8pm

  • Arash Khakpour and Emmalena Fredriksson

    Thursday-Saturday December 8-10, 2022 | 8pm

  • Smail Kanouté/ Compagnie Vivons!

    Thursday-Saturday January 19-21, 2023 | 8pm

  • Hillel Kogan

    Thursday-Saturday April 13-15, 2023 | 8pm

    April 14 performance in French

  • FakeKnot

    Thursday-Saturday May 4-6, 2023 | 8pm

Trailer

Presented with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Choreographer: Smail Kanouté

Dancers: Aston Bonaparte, Salomon Mpondo-Dicka & Smail Kanouté

Body painter: Lorella Disez

Assistant choreographer: Moustapha Ziane

Scenographer & light designer: Olivier Brichet

Sound designer: Paul Lajus

Light manager: Josselin Allaire

Costume designers: Rachel Boa & Ornella Maris

Photo by Mark Maborough

Executive Production Compagnie Vivons!

Co-production:

Les Ateliers Médicis – Clichy sous Bois / Espace 1789 – Scène conventionnée danse – Saint Ouen
Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine Saint Denis / CentQuatre – Paris
Théâtre de la Ville – Danse Élargie 2020 – Fondation d’entreprise Hermès

Supported by

Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Ile de France / Région Ile de France / Institut Français
Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis / Ville de Paris
Adami / Spedidam / Caisse des Dépôts

Presented with:

Mandala Arts & Culture/Ron Sangha

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