MEDI1TV Afrique : Culture - 15/01/2025
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00:00Welcome to Mediinterfax.
00:28Welcome to Mediain TV.
00:30As you can see, dear viewers,
00:32this is a circus that is in question in this cultural chronicle.
00:35This is an excerpt from the premiere of Yango Yeli,
00:41the latest creation of the Guinean company Circus Baobab.
00:47The show was premiered in Marseille,
00:50in the south of France,
00:51and opened the International Biennial of Circus Arts.
00:55A major event of the contemporary circus,
00:58the Guinean company Circus Baobab
01:01addresses in particular the theme of excision,
01:04a mutilation suffered by 95% of women in Guinea.
01:10I invite you to listen to Mariama Sire Souma.
01:13She is a member of the Circus Baobab troupe.
01:17We are proud to convey the message to everyone in Africa and Europe.
01:23We are very, very, very proud to be here.
01:25Because we are all happy.
01:27Since we heard that there will be the story of the excision,
01:32there is not only the excision in the show.
01:36There are strong women too.
01:39There is violence too.
01:43So we talk about everything.
01:44We have chosen together.
01:48As we grow up,
01:50we understand how the situation is happening in our lives.
01:55I told my grandmother that if I knew I was at a certain age,
02:00and that at least 16 or 17, I would not accept it.
02:03Because at that moment, I know what is good in my life and what is bad.
02:07In a clean staging,
02:09making the beautiful part to the singing and dancing,
02:11long rows of Fantofis wood,
02:14tower by tower, of Russian bars,
02:16of Chinese mass and of funambulism.
02:19The wood is what remains of the sacred forest,
02:22which is the place where the excisions are made,
02:25a highly codified protocol.
02:27To learn more about this particularly complex and taboo subject,
02:32the director has conducted a series of interviews
02:35with men and women from Guinea,
02:37whose excerpts are broadcast throughout the show.
02:40Guinea is the second country after Somalia,
02:43where women are the most excised.
02:45We listen to Yann Ekovre,
02:47he is the author and stage director of the show.
02:51What will be interesting, and what remained,
02:53was to see where the Guinean women
02:56would need independence nowadays,
02:58where the African women would need independence nowadays,
03:00and maybe even the women in general would need it.
03:03And already in Guinea, I realized that the third country
03:09that practices the most excision, 96%,
03:11including all those I worked with in the previous show,
03:13is in this one.
03:14So I went to see the production and I told them,
03:17well, we have the potential subject here.
03:19And they told me, OK, we'll go in there
03:22and we'll call the show Yongo Yeli, which means the exciser.
03:26I really wanted to talk about men-women relations in Guinea,
03:30but about women first, and to see that,
03:32in the end, it's even a global woman,
03:36even if she's African and all,
03:39it's a subject that is more universal in what she lives.
03:44Circus Baobab is a collective of circus artists from Guinea
03:48and the diaspora,
03:49mixing the traditional modes of expression of African circus
03:53and the new writings of contemporary circus.
03:55Founded in 1998,
03:57the company offers actions of cultural mediation,
04:01such as football workshops, street circus,
04:04sensitization and initiation to acrobatics,
04:07performances, street shows.
04:09Over the years, Circus Baobab has become a springboard
04:13for many young people,
04:14a social circus that juggles between art and reintroduction.
04:18After Marseille, Yongo Yeli, the company's latest creation,
04:22will launch a tour of about forty dates
04:25across France starting in February,
04:27with about twenty performances in Paris.
04:31I invite you to listen to Raquel Arache de Andrade.
04:34She is the founder of the International Biennial
04:37of the Arts of the Circus of Marseille.
04:40For me, it was very important to choose women
04:45because we always have a glass ceiling
04:49of the 30% of broadcasts,
04:52of the shows carried by women.
04:54And on this Biennial, we are very proud
04:58because we managed to go to 50%.
05:01So, to say that women also have their place
05:07and that they have a lot of ideas to propose to the public,
05:12that was the most important thing.
05:14Women have a different way of writing.
05:17I am quite impressed
05:21how they go to the depth of intimacy,
05:26something that they can talk about
05:29because they have worked a lot on intimacy.
05:33And that's something that men have a little bit more difficulty with,
05:38it's getting into intimacy.
05:40And women are wonderful for that.
05:45Thank you, dear viewers, for your loyalty.
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