Vintage Ballets Africains performance - Minuit

[bubudi]

italo zambo and justin morel junior performing the poem minuit written by kemoko sano, with choreography by kemoko sano. anybody know the name of the djembefola?

thanks to guedom for uploading!

[guedom]

the poem is by Fodeba Keita, don't know the djembefola, i look for this video in Justin Morel Junior's website but no info about.

bubudi had you hurry when you post?

enjoy it!

[bubudi]

oops! yes, i was getting sleepy by that stage...

looks a bit like famoudou

[bubudi]

i've posted a link to download the complete performance in the media section!

[guedom]

the video is from 1988.. so is not Famoudou.

cheers

[guedom]

the second part of the video is a festival, Feskora 89, here the end of it, enjoy

[Dugafola]

this vid just reinforces my thought that dununba rhythms really don't need djembe solo...especially takosaba.

great dununba sequence...seems like they're depicting the changing of the barati or at least a dispute on the bara b/w age groups. then a personal conflict b/w a few of them during the 2nd time they play konowulen 2.

great dancing by moustapha bangoura and yamoussa soumah and others of course.

not sure who the lead 'fola is. i thought Gbaworo took over the reigns when FK left. could be laurent camara as well.

btw, the 'dununba's depicted by the ballets nowadays are not even close to this. usually the music is way too fast and the solo is all warra warra.