Visiting Oshun Movement Research With Coppin State University Students with Dr. Celia Weiss Bambara PC CBambara CCBdance Project
-Thank you MSAC for your support in Maryland. Please see http://msac.org/directory/artists/celia-bambara
-This is the 16th year for the CCBdance Project. Celia Weiss Bambara became solo director of the company in 2012 carrying on the work begun with co-founder Christian Bambara during his illness. During this ten year period the company taught and performed in Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, France, Germany, North Carolina, New York, California, Maryland, and Michigan. In 2015, the CCBdance Project became a non-profit in the Ivory Coast as well as a fiscally sponsored entity in the United States. Celia created site dance work, installations, dance films, improvisations, work with students and large scale solo and small ensemble pieces. This spring, celebrating this spirit of resilience and regeneration we will show repertory dance work at Coppin State University in Baltimore and site dance or dance film created by students at Coppin and possible visiting artists. We will also create a new dance film with collaborators and students and some movement research/improvisation as an installation in a parking lot West Baltimore.
May 4th- Showing of student dance work and work set on students, “Let it Flow-Let it Grow” by Cbambara.
May 6th- Studio showing of student work and screening of “Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres” movement research for the solo “Steppin Up.” Co-sponsored by the Title IX Office at Coppin State University.
-Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres Screen Dance is a semi-finalist for the Sydney Indie Short Film Festival.
-Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres Screen is a semi-finalist for the Dubai Independent Film Festival.
-Screen Dance blue, green is selected by the Toronto International Women Film Festival.
April 27th- Dialogue on Improvisation-From Tradition to Contemporary with Lacina Coulibaly. Virtual event co-sponsored by the CCBdance Project 10 am -11 am.
-Screen dance production with collaborators Lacina Coulibaly, Jessica Ray, Jerry Brown, and Coppin Dance Students at CSU as part of DANC 426. Spring production of a dance film with collaborators Lacina Coulibaly and Jessica Ray with Coppin Students.
March 28th-Workshop on African Dance with Lacina Coulibaly co-sponsored by the CCBdance Project. Virtual event through CSU.
March 30th-Performance of student work in library quad and site-dance work set on students by Bambara (in process).
February 4th Screening of Je Te Souhaites Du Bien at Apres, at Screen Dance Istanbul/Dance Camera Pandemania. Official selection.
-An improvisational installation and dialogue about improvisation may also be improvisationaly made possible.
