THREE LEVELS TCHEKPO DANCE COMPANY
Conzept TCHEKPO DAN AGBETOU
Choreography TCHEKPO DAN AGBETOU IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ARTISTS
What does a person need in order to deal with his body, feeling and soul?
Is the body the instrument that etlows us to bring our ideas and dreams on stage?
How does the body depend on the soul?
Is he guided by the feelings or does the soul guide the feelings?
Is the body really the mirror of the mind?
With these questions, the choreographer Tchekpo Dan Agbetou approaches in his new piece
the interaction of body, feeling and soul. THREE LEVELS asks to what extent this interaction is
guided emotionally and whether the Darwinian survival of the fittest depends on it.
In "Three Levels" five very individual dancers and choreographers of the same generation
come together to translate those questions into a contemporary dance language and try to
jointly find an answer. Their journev to the mysterious heights where body, feeling and soul
meet, prornises adventure and knowledge.
After many exploratory trips through Africa, Tchepko Dan Agbetou wants to question the eu-
ropean notion of the African body, because he sees behind the stereotype the differences,
that regions and ethnic groups produce. The five African dancers from THREE LEVELS are the
living proof of his thesis.
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