Programme Culturel
M us ic & Dance by
C ompag n i e Propos
2018
Janvier FĂŠvrier
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CONTENTS
Music & Dance by Compagnie Propos (France)
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6 eDITORIAL 9 Dance: Compagnie Propos (France) 10 cinéma: Les Lendemains (2012) 11 GAME DAY 13 PAINTINGS EXHIBITION: “RAIN IN NIGHTS” 14 MUSIC QUIZZ NIGHT 16 CINE CLUB: Jacquot de Nantes 17 cinéma: Une Vie ailleurs (2016) 18 MUSIC CONCERT: SIMBIN PROJECT BIOGRAPHY 19 SAUTI ZA BUSARA ZANZIBAR 20 dance: CONTEMPORARY DANCE NIGHT 21 cinéma: Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro (2010)
22 BARAZANI: Safi Theatre 23 BARAZANI: Segere original 24 PARTAGE DE MUSIQUE 25 CINE CLUB: Zéro de conduite (version restaurée)
SAUTI ZA BUSARA ZANZIBAR
PAINTINGS EXHIBITION RAIN IN NIGHTS
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EDITORIAL
Chers amis de l’Alliance Française,
Dear friends of Alliance Française... and the French language.
Toute l’équipe se joint à moi pour vous accueillir à nouveau en 2018 dans votre Alliance Française et vous souhaiter le meilleur pour cette nouvelle année.
The whole team joins me to welcome you again in 2018 at your Alliance Française and wish you the best for this New Year.
Elle commence avec l’accueil de Denis Plassard, chorégraphe et danseur français, bien connu sur les scènes françaises. Directeur de la Compagnie Propos, il aime mélanger les styles et techniques artistiques. Il a notamment collaboré par le passé avec des musiciens classiques tout comme avec des magiciens!
It begins with the reception of Denis Plassard, French choreographer and dancer, well known on the French scenes. Director of Compagnie Propos, he likes to mix artistic styles and techniques. He has collaborated in the past with classical musicians and magicians! He will spend a few days in Dar es Salaam for a creative work associating the dancers of Muda Africa, our faithful partner. The evening at the Alliance Française in Dar es Salaam promises to be rhythmic and tasty. Come and follow Denis Plassard’s footsteps on Tuesday January 16th from 7pm.
Il passera quelques jours à Dar es Salaam pour un travail de création associant les danseurs de Muda Africa, notre fidèle partenaire. La soirée proposée à l’Alliance Française de Dar es Salaam s’annonce rythmée et savoureuse. Venez emboiter le pas de Denis Plassard, le Mardi 16 janvier dès 19 heures. Ce début d’année marque également la reconduction de notre partenariat avec le fameux et incontournable Festival Sauti Za Busara qui aura lieu à Zanzibar du 8 au 11 février 2018. Deux groupes français sont programmés cette année pour vous proposer une découverte du Maloya, musique traditionnelle de l’Ile de la Réunion, dans l’Océan Indien. Nous accueillerons en avant-première, le 8 février, un concert proposé dans le cadre du festival: une belle mise en appétit pour ceux qui se rendront au festival. De nombreux autres rendez-vous sont proposés en ce début d’année à l’Alliance, soyez curieux! Je vous souhaite à tous, une année douce et épicée, à la rencontre de la langue française, de l’art et de la culture.
Soyez les bienvenus à l’Alliance Française! 6
This beginning of the year also marks the renewal of our partnership with the famous and indispensable Sauti Za Busara Festival that will take place in Zanzibar from February 8 to 11, 2018. Two French groups are scheduled this year to offer you a discovery of Maloya, traditional music of Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean. On February 8th, we will be hosting a before festival concert: a great appetite for those who will be attending the festival. Many other events are proposed at the beginning of the year at the Alliance, be curious!
Frédéric TIBERTI
Director
I wish you all, a sweet and spicy year, to meet the French language, art and culture.
See you soon at your Alliance! 7
Music & dance
TUE 16th JAN 2018
KITCHEN OPEN FROM 12 - 9 PM MONDAY TO SATURDAY
Music & Dance by Compagnie Propos (France) After a professional ballet and contemporary dance training at the CNSMD in Lyon, Denis Plassard danced for 2 seasons with the « Place Blanche » Company, Josette Baïz. In 1990, the urge to choreograph his own pieces pushed him to create his first solo, “Propos”, which later gave its name to the company he founded the following year. From his first steps as a choreographer, Denis Plassard tried to create dynamic bonds between texts and gesture and has explored the relationship between words and movement. In collaboration with Muda Africa, the choreographer Denis Plassard will conduct workshops and performance with students from MUDA Africa. His first performance in Tanzania will be at Alliance Française on Tuesday January 16th where he will perform both his Solo and with students from Muda Africa. Other performances will be in Arusha and Zanzibar respectively.
Alliance Française | 7PM | FREE ENTRANCE 9
cinéma
FRI 19th JAN 2018
Les Lendemains (2012) Leaving college, Audrey moves away from her family cocoon, her childhood friend, her boyfriend. With her new co-tenant, she discovers political activism. From disillusionment to difficulties, Audrey crosses the path of the young people of GRAL, a group of squatters who offers her to live differently and offers her a new vision of the world. Audrey chooses to share their experience, more and more radical...
GAME DAY
SAT 20th JAN 2018
GAME DAY - Socialize & play games bring and share your favourite game “Board games have been played throughout most cultures and societies throughout history. Today they are ever so popular and have made a comeback. Join us at the Alliance Française garden for a fun afternoon playing games while listening to music and socializing. Feel free to bring your favorite game to teach and share with others. Under The Mango Tree will be serving food and beverages throughout the afternoon.”
Director: Bénédicte Pagnot Alliance Française | 6.30 PM | FREE ENTRANCE 10
Alliance Française | 12 PM | FREE ENTRANCE 11
PAINTINGS EXHIBITION
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OPENING TUE
OPENING FRI
23rd JAN 2018
9th FEB 2018
“Rainy in Nights”
by ABDULLA KHAMIS OMAR (DULLAH WISE) Born in Zanzibar on December 12, 1990, Abdullah is one of the upcoming local artists on the islands inspired by the cosmopolitan heritage. Besides working as an artist, Abdullah also works as an art therapist at the occupational Health Department of the Kidongo Chekundu Mental Hospital in Zanzibar. Abdullah uses acrylics and palette knife on canvas, illustrating the local environment which expresses everyday life featuring aspects of contemporary urban and rural life. By using his impressionist style and the way of applying colors on canvas, Abdullah works hard to create paintings that speak both to himself and to others about the beauty that exists around us. My inspiration come from umbrella dance is one of well known dance from Zanzibar. It can be performing either during the day or night. There is a jock in Zanzibar during the rain season, every one caring umbrella and although is not a dance is just ordinary day during the rain season, and the jock is they all performing umbrella dance but not dance.
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Alliance Française | 6.30PM | FREE ENTRANCE 12
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QUIZZ NIGHT
FRI 26th JAN 2018
MUSIC QUIZZ NIGHT This months there is Everything 90’s. Hosted by the Alliance Française and Under The Mango Tree team, we will have you dancing on the tables by the end of the night. Free entry for all teams of up to five people, no reservations required. Prize will be awarded for the most creative team name. The winning team will get a bottle of wine. Food and beverages will be provided by Under The Mango Tree. Alliance Française has been hosting the music quizz successfully over the years. We are bringing it back with a bang for 2018. This months theme is “Everything Nineties.”
Alliance Française | 8 PM | FREE ENTRANCE 14
CINE CLUB
SAT
cinéma
FRI
27th JAN 2018
2nd feb 2018
Une Vie ailleurs (2016) Jacquot de Nantes Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film… An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy’s childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.
Director: Agnès Varda
It’s been four years since Sylvie‘s son Felipe was abducted by his father Pablo after their divorce. Having been let down by French officials who had succeeded in tracking them both down, only to let them escape again, Sylvie has now decided to take matters into her own hands by hiring a private detective. Pablo’s accidental death puts her back on Felipe’s track, now living with his aunt and grandmother in the Uruguayan countryside, Pablo’s home country. Mehdi, a social worker, disillusioned with his job, is moved by Sylvie’s struggle and decides to leave everything to help her. Together they set out to Uruguay in order to bring her child back to France. Once there, she realises, by being the mother, she has all rights on her son, including the right to destroy the fragile but happy balance that has been built around him.
Director: Olivier Peyon Alliance Française | 11.00 AM | FREE ENTRANCE 16
Alliance Française | 6.30 PM | FREE ENTRANCE 17
MUSIC concert
THU 8th FEB 2018
SIMBIN PROJECT BIOGRAPHY The Simbin project was born in 2016 on the initiative of the Swiss multi-instrumentalist and producer Fred Hirschy. Since 2005, he has worked with Didier Awadi, Faada Freddy, Tumi Molekane, Fredy Massamba, etc. The particularity and strength of the Simbin project consists in mixing the kora virtuoso, Noumoucounda, and the two Swiss pioneers of the electronic and experimental music, Christophe Calpini and Pierre Audétat (the duo “Stade”). For nearly 20 years, Noumoucounda has toured and recorded with the Positive Black Soul, among the first African rap groups to play on international stages. Then Youssou N’Dour, Alpha Blondy and Stromae have joined the long list of artists who have worked with the kora player.
Simbin Project also performing at the sauti za busara - zanzibar Alliance Française | 7 PM | FREE ENTRANCE 18
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dance
THU 15th FEB 2018
cinéma
FRI 16th feb 2018
CONTEMPORARY DANCE NIGHT
by Nantea Dance in collaboration with East Africa Dance Revolution The East Africa dance revolution and Nantea Dance consists of a one year program or more which sets up contemporary dance events where both national and regional dancers will perform (individual and group performances). This will take place in various towns and art Centers within East Africa. Collaborations with dancers in those towns and art centers will be the main focus in an attempt to further promote dancing culture. Contemporary dance night had been successfully arranged or (organized) within Kampala city, Uganda since 2015. The events have been held at venues sponsored by Alliance Française and the National Theater in Uganda. So far Dance Revolution has managed to arrange or (organize) six contemporary dance nights, where over 40 performers have been presenting their work.
Alliance Française | 6.30PM | FREE ENTRANCE 20
Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro (2010) Although having lost his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire. These two have been in love for thirty years. Their children and their grandchildren fill them. They have very close friends. They are proud of their union and political struggles. This happiness will shatter with their French window in front of two young men armed and masked who hit them, tie them, tear their alliances, and escape with their credit cards... Their confusion will be all the more violent when they learn that this brutal aggression was organized by one of the young workers dismissed with Michel.
Director: Robert Guédiguian Alliance Française | 6.30 PM | FREE ENTRANCE 21
BARAZANI
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21st FEB 2018
21st FEB 2018
Safi Theatre Safi Theatre performs improvised traditional ngoma music (drumming and dance), blending their unique and lively shows with acrobatics in order to create an exciting mix of traditional Tanzanian Music and artistic creativity. Musically the group plays a variety of danceable and energetic tunes by using traditional percussive instruments as well as other contemporary ones which includes Snare drum, Conga flutes and Toms.. The dancers are young girls and boys, aged between Twelve to Twenty years. Most of the members started performing at a very young age, usually from 7-8 years. Until 2015 the oldest member of the group is the leader and artistic director who is aged 35. He is the one in charge of all the trainings and directions of the group’s performances, he himself is equipped with extensive experience in acting, dancing and playing traditional instruments since his childhood. His name is Ramadhani Maneno but popularly known as Pendapenda. Their shows (Safi Theater) are always very engaging and explosive from the beginning with a reputation of keeping the audience on their feet throughout shows.
Alliance Française | 7.00 PM | FREE ENTRANCE 22
Segere Original There are not many bands whose music has been so pervasive that a new genre has been named after them. Such is the case with Young Stars’ Segere - the 2001 hit song that lent its name to both the style and also the band. Segere is especially noteworthy for its fast rhythms, directly descending from Zaramo cultural traditions. As such it has similarities with mchiriku. Whereas the latter uses a mix of Zaramo ngoma drums with a small Casio keyboard as the sole lead instrument, Segere’s sound is heavier with Tony Karama’s bass guitar taking the lead role from the msondo drum, and drummer Abdallah Ng’onda’s lively drum set propels the band to ever increasing frenzies. The ensemble sound is carried by solo guitarist Mjusi Shemboza, and marimba player Hamisi Nyamula. Boniface Kachale’s trumpet adds a beni brass flavor. Expect nothing short of a riot on the dance floor!
Alliance Française | 7.00 PM | FREE ENTRANCE 23
PARTAGE DE MUSIQUE
FRI 23rd feb 2018
Music is certainly one of the most pleasant ways to discover and meet different cultures. As a universal language, it brings people together by revealing common feelings, which go beyond the frontiers of communication. For all these reasons, the Alliance Française of Dar es Salaam offers you the opportunity to share your favorite songs and to discover new ones from all around the world. You are kindly invited to present a music which represents you or which you feel is essential for you. As we truly believe that music is a wonderful way to connect people, we hope you will join us for this unique experience. If you would like to present or special set-up, please contact info@afdar.com or call 022 213 1406 to get more details and info.
This will make you discover new music especially from France! Alliance Française | 6.00PM | FREE ENTRANCE 24
CINE CLUB
SAT 24th feb 2018
Zéro de conduite (version restaurée) The holidays are over and it is time for the students to return to their boarding school, a place without joy where teachers, obtuse adults, inflict severe punishments and deprive them of freedom and creativity. Four of them, punished with a “zero of conduct”, decide to rebel, with the complicity of a new supervisor, Huguet, closer to the mentality of young people than the rigid one of other adults.
Director: Jean Vigo Alliance Française | 11.00 AM | FREE ENTRANCE 25
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