Fesman - Général
Général
BCA RSS Syndicator
Theater
 Theatre is an ancestral tradition in Africa, based on orally transmitted stories that recount the major events of social life. As such, African Theatre has for a long time been considered as a descendant of rituals and religion or even archaic. Renewed by contact with western art forms, African theatre has embarked upon a process of interaction that is constantly raising levels of creativity, through major encounters between theatre artists. This is the case in the USA with the National Black Theatre Festival, which every two years brings together the major creations of black American theatre companies, and in Brazil with large-scale ethnic theatre events, etc. In Africa and beyond, contemporary theatre simultaneously rooted in African heritage is revisiting and opening itself up to numerous universal art forms and is flourishing everywhere. All black theatre artists throughout the world whose symbolic and artistic expressions continue to be influenced by this ancestral African tradition will be represented at FESMAN 2009.The dramatic arts have continued to develop in Africa, accumulating experience, commanding admiration and respect and establishing international references. The Benin International Theatre Festival, the Carrefour International de Théâtre de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), the Festival Théâtre des Réalities in Bamako (Mali), the International Theatre Encounters in Yaoundé, Cameroon etc. bear witness to this astounding vitality. Anxious to share experiences and participate in mutually beneficial relations, the continent’s artists have welcomed opportunities for working together and promoting South/South and North/South cooperation, whilst striving to forge their destiny through the originality and quality of their productions. As stakeholders in social and political issues, African artists have been able to adapt their productions and thereby promote direct contact with their audiences. Fesman 2009 FESMAN 2009 is an invitation to experience this great melting pot of artistic expression from Africa and its Diaspora. It aims to promote dialogue between cultures by comparing visions of artistic practices anchored in socio-cultural realities. In this respect, FESMAN 2009 operates as a forum for meetings, exchanges, speech, ideas, designs, antagonisms, contradictions, passions of human existence through theatre. The festival will include a competition that is open to theatre creations nominated by participating countries, with major works by internationally acclaimed artists, troupes and companies, who will be invited to present to their audiences all the diversity of theatrical expression offered by black artists from around the world. |
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