Research Catalog

Kotchegna Dance Company

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

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Nakae, Mami
  2. Yao, Afoue
  3. Hernández, Lisa
  4. Rhem, Darlene
  5. Ingram, Candace
  6. Diomande, Sogbety
  7. Brooks, Herb
  8. Papa (Dancer), active 1998
  9. Dahoue, Mamadou
  10. Diomande, Vado
  11. George, Bi Boti
  12. Camara, Maguette
  13. Niang, Mamadou
  14. Kotchegna Dance Company
  15. New York Public Library. Dance Collection
  16. DHCA.
Description
  1. 1 streaming video file (76 min.) : sd., col. NTSC
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Retour de Vado
Subject
  1. Dance -- Côte d'Ivoire
  2. Drummers (Musicians) -- Côte d'Ivoire
  3. Baule (African people) -- Dances
  4. Dan (African people) -- Dances
  5. Mask dances
  6. Stilt dances
Genre/Form
  1. Dance.
  2. Video.
Contents
  1. Prologue / choreography, Bi Boti George.
  2. 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).
  3. Part II. Abodan / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance to bring happiness during rituals (Baoulé tribe).
  4. Temate / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance of beauty and nobility, executed by young girls and boys to celebrate a good rice harvest (We tribe).
  5. Kong / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance demonstrating men's power (Kong tribe).
  6. Mamian / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance depicting young people's special role in traditional society (Yacouba).
  7. Dende / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance with bars, demonstrating people's ability and potential.
  8. Ngoron / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance for girls in the last stage of their initiation into womanhood, demonstrating their gracefulness (Senoufo).
  9. Mandiani / choreography, Maguette Camara ; celebration dance that originated in Guinea and spread throughout West Africa.
  10. Zagrobi / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance symbolizing rivalry (Bete).
  11. Solo / choreography and performance, Mamadou Dahoue.
  12. Zaouly / choreography, Vado Diomande ; dance of rejoicing and mourning.
Call number
  1. *MGZIA 4-3302
Note
  1. Program title: Retour de Vado.
  2. Accompanied by house program.
  3. 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)
  1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
  1. Costumes, Lisa Hernandez.
Performer (note)
  1. 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.
  2. Drummers: Djo-Bi-Irie Simon, Tra-Bi Lizie, Sogbety Diomande, Madou Dembele, Gogbeu Boyon Privat.
  3. Guest artist: Mamadou Dahoue, director of the Ancestral Messengers.
Event (note)
  1. Videotaped in performance at Djoniba Dance and Drum Centre, New York, on December 12, 1998 ; director and videographer, Mamadou Niang.
Funding (note)
  1. Recording made possible by the assistance of grants from the New York State Council of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Title
  1. Kotchegna Dance Company [electronic resource] / artistic direction by Vado Diomande ; choreography by Vado Diomande, Bi Boti George and Maguette Camara.
Imprint
  1. c1998.
Country of producing entity
  1. U.S.
Performer
  1. 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.
  2. Drummers: Djo-Bi-Irie Simon, Tra-Bi Lizie, Sogbety Diomande, Madou Dembele, Gogbeu Boyon Privat.
  3. Guest artist: Mamadou Dahoue, director of the Ancestral Messengers.
Credits
  1. Costumes, Lisa Hernandez.
Event
  1. Videotaped in performance at Djoniba Dance and Drum Centre, New York, on December 12, 1998 ; director and videographer, Mamadou Niang.
Funding
  1. 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
  1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Local subject
  1. Mask dances.
  2. Stilt dances.
Added author
  1. Nakae, Mami, dancer.
  2. Yao, Afoue, dancer.
  3. Hernández, Lisa. cst, dancer.
  4. Rhem, Darlene, dancer.
  5. Ingram, Candace, dancer.
  6. Diomande, Sogbety, dancer.
  7. Brooks, Herb, dancer.
  8. Papa (Dancer), active 1998.
  9. Dahoue, Mamadou, choreographer, dancer.
  10. Diomande, Vado, choreographer, dancer.
  11. George, Bi Boti, choreographer, dancer.
  12. Camara, Maguette, choreographer, dancer.
  13. Niang, Mamadou. Director
  14. Kotchegna Dance Company.
  15. New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
  16. DHCA.
Research call number
  1. *MGZIA 4-3302
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