Maquis Ball by Salia Sanou

At the end of the day, in West Africa, we meet at the maquis to have a drink, share a meal with family or friends and to dance!

Salia Sanou and her musicians invite you to take the journey and share the dance during a ball.

Star of coupé-décalé, passionate dancer or simply curious, come and "joy yourself" to rhythms mixing electro and Mandingo music.

Born in 1969 in Burkina Faso, Salia Sanou took African theatre and dance classes there before joining Mathilde Monnier's company in 1993.

Since then, he has led projects in France and Africa. He founded the company Salia nï Seydou with Seydou Boro in 1995.

Winners of the second Choreographic Meetings of Africa and

the Indian Ocean, they received the RFi Dance Discovery Prize in 1998.

From 2003 to 2008, Salia Sanou was an artist associated with the national scene of Saint-

Brieuc, before being in residence at the CN D national dance center in Pantin from 2009 to 2010.

With Seydou Boro, he created the Dialogue de corps biennial in Ouagadougou as well

that La Termitière, an open choreographic development center

in 2006 and which he has been leading ever since.

In 2011, he founded the company Mouvement perpétuels based in

Montpellier. From one creation to another, he explores the question of borders and

otherness. He created Beyond Borders (2012), Clamor of the Arenas (2014) for the Montpellier Dance Festival and Doubaley the Mirror in 2013. From the Desire of Horizons

(2016), is inspired by the workshops he led for 3 years in the camps of

Malian refugees in northern Burkina Faso.

For Multiple-s (2018-19) he invites in turn three artists who have punctuated his

journey, the choreographer Germaine Acogny, the novelist Nancy Huston and the

musician Babx…

His latest creation, “D'un rêve” (2021), is a dance comedy for 8 dancers and 4 singers based on a musical composition by Lokua Kanza and texts by Gaël Faye and Capitaine Alexandre.

Since 2020, Salia Sanou has been an associated artist at the Grand R Scène nationale de la Roche-sur-Yon.