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Ghana Dance Ensemble, Photo: Dragan Dragin
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A music and dance performance created especially for the striking atrium of Prague’s Invalidovna. A baroque fountain comes alive with extracts from Henry Purcell’s operas The Fairy Queen and King Arthur in an untraditional African arrangement.

The first artistic meeting of French choreographer Jean Gaudin and world-renowned harpsichordist Barbara Marie Willi. Together they have created this performance for members of the Ghana Dance Ensemble and interpreters of baroque music from JAMU. Come and witness African drumming breathe new life into the Baroque in this extraordinary meeting of cultures, rhythms and artists from two continents. 

This performance was created with support from the Czech Ministry of Culture and the French Institute in Prague, ZUŠ Náměšť nad Oslavou and with colaboration of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Accra; the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and JAMU.

 
 

African prince the hero of an 18th century French novelIn 1740, Prince Anniaba became the first African hero of a French novel. The whole story began when Louis XIV dispatched a delegation to the Gold Coast, part of which forms today’s Ghana. Then, in 1688, Prince Anniaba set out for Europe, to study European ways, commerce and culture at the French court. Anniaba was ultimately baptised in France and his godfather was none other than Louis XIV himself. The Prince spent more than 10 years at court, becoming a scholar in a number of subjects, and also the ‘the first black officer in the French army.’ Anniaba returned to Africa after the death of King Zéna, to contribute to the political scene there, but was ultimately unable to work alongside the new king… Anniaba’s story is the subject of novel Histoire de Louis Anniaba: Roi d'Essenie en Afrique sur la Cote de Guinée (The Story of Louis Anniaba: King of Essenie on the African Coast of Guinea).

 

Barbara Maria Willi (Czech Republic)

Musicologist, organist, harpsichordist of European renown and specialist in the hammerklavier, Barbara Maria Willi has received a number of prizes as a harpsichordist and interpreter of the historical hammerklavier. She collaborates with leading artistic personalities, performing on famous podiums and is a regular guest dramaturg of the renowned international music festival Concentus Moraviae, as well as the leader of the Department of Organ and historical interpretation at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Barbara Maria Willi will be the coordinator for the musicians selected to participate in GENIUS RISES. 

Jean Gaudin (FRA)

Dancer, choreographer, director and coach Jean Gaudinhas for over thirty years worked on projects balancing on the edge of theatre, circus, opera, audiovisual and dance. He is author of dozens of choreographies and many dance videos. Before Jean Gaudinfounded his own group Compagniehe cooperated with Maurice Béjartand Carolyn Carlson. The production of Jean Gaudinis specific byeffort to tell human stories with humor and seriously at the same time, interaction with other artistic disciplines (withmusicians, composers, visual artists, filmmakers...) and bymixing various artistic tools. Films in which he participated werepresented at many various festivals, his choreographies were performed also in Parisian Théâtrede la Ville  and at the Avignon Festival. As an artistic advisor and coach he passes on his rich interdisciplinary experiences to dance groupsand opera, theatre or circus productions. Since 2012 he has become a regular guest of the Centre of Choreographic Development SE.S.TA as a coach of the international residence and since 2013 he has every year created productions for KoresponDanceFestival.

Ghana Dance Ensemble (GHA)

The group was founded in 1962 on basis of a very successful cooperation of the governmental Institute of Art and Culture and Institute of African Studies at the Ghana University. Ghana Dance Ensemble is a group created with the goal to preserve rich heritage of the Ghana dance culture and support the creative work and creativity using Ghana dances as a basis. Since the beginning the group was supposed to be flag ship of professional global representation of Ghana and its musical and dance heritage and thus based on top-quality professional work and experimental research. In 1960‘s and 1970‘s the group together with Ballet African of Guinea Conakry presented to the world breathtaking insight into African aesthetics and culture from the African point  of view. The current form of the Ghana Dance Ensemble under the leadership of Ben ObidoAyetteykeepsthe authenticity of traditions but at the same time widens the repertoire and examines dance as tool of expressing contemporary questions.

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