Precious Drop: A Traditional and Contemporary African Dance Theater

CounterPULSE and Mohamed Lamine Bangoura with Jaara Dance and Drum, and Bu Falle, present a work in progress as part of the Winter Special program: PRECIOUS DROP

Including: World Premier by “Zou”: a collaborative dance project by local artists Vivien Bassouamina & Laurel Fanya. Mohamed Lamine Bangoura of Jaara Dance and Drum

*Friday February 3 and Saturday February 4, 2012 at 8:00pm*

PRECIOUS DROP, directed by Lamine a recent transplant from Guinea, is an intricate tapestry of traditional and contemporary African dance theater that explores experiences of water blessings and water scarcity. Woven together by tales of Mami Wata, the venerated water serpent priestess, PRECIOUS DROP is an intimate look at our different cultural relationships to water, and the universal human concerns around the future of our water.

The production is greatly influenced by African, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Fusion music and culture and will feature local Bay Area artists Mohamed Lamine Bangoura, Amadou Diawara of Bu Falle Dance and Drum, and Vivien Bassaouamina of Santa Cruz who will be previewing his new collaborative work “Zou” with co-collaborator Laurel Fanya, and the
renowned Tawanda muChinyakare of Oakland. Also featured are Jaara Dance and Drum members Baindu Conté-Coomber, Abagail Fritz and Jasmine Donaldson, and special guest artists Alhassane “Papin” Camara of Santa Fe, NM and
Ibrahim Sylla of Eugene, OR.

*SAVE THE DATE*

What: Precious Drop: African and Afro-Fusion Dance, Music, and Theater.

When: Friday, February 3 at 8:00pm and Saturday, February 4 at 8:00pm

Where: CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street @ 9th, San Francisco

Tickets: Advanced $15, Door $20
Counterpulse.org or 1-800-350-8850

Web: *www.counterpulse.org*

About the Director:
Lamine recently moved to the U.S. from Guinea, West Africa. Though Lamine is a decendent of Sousou and Malinke ancestors, he spent much of his life traveling throughout Western Africa to study music and enrich his understanding of the many cultures and ethnicities of his continent. Unity has thus become the marker of his artistic style, influenced by the diverse number of artists and teachers whom he’s worked with in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Senegal, Ghana, and Sierra Leone, among others. Read More about Lamine