INTERMEDIAL INDIAN OCEAN - In Conversation with Tao Ravao & Luis Sala
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As part of the Indian Ocean events in November 2021, choreographer and dancer Luis Sala and musician Tao Ravao were guests of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence in Bayreuth. In this interview, they talk with Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler, Deputy Spokesperson of the Cluster, about sounds and movements.
Luis Sala is a choreographer and dancer from Maputo where he runs a dance school. His 25-year long career includes a 10-year stint with the renowned National Dance Company of Mozambique. He collaborated on various projects in the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies on Iconographies. Together with Ute Fendler and Ivan Barros (photographer, filmmaker), he created a video clip and dance performance capturing the polyrhythmic nature of the Indian Ocean.
Tao Ravao is a musician based in France, playing Valiha, guitar and mandolin. Born in Madagascar, Ravao had always been fascinated by the music of the big island and the multi-instrumentalist took up playing the kabosy in the 1980s which took him around the world (Canada, the United States, Japan, East Africa). His love for Malagasy music led Tao Ravao to become the artistic director and producer of albums by the great D'Gary and Jean Emilien, Senge and Rajery. He has also produced the albums of Ba Cissoko and Sékou Diabaté of Bembeya Jazz. In 2016 he collaborated with Luis Sala on the project “Body and Sound”.
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- INTERMEDIAL INDIAN OCEAN - In Conversation with Tao Ravao & Luis Sala
- Language
- English
- YouTube playlist
- Workshop Intermedial Indian Ocean - 2021
- Date
- February 13, 2023
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- so [Music] so [Music] okay hello great to have you back in byroid uh in eva liver house and also for the new project intermediate indian ocean um i think we should start just by a short round of uh presentations tao would you like to start and tell us a little bit about your right my name is i was born in madagascar i grew up over there and left my island when i was about 12 years old and i went to europe especially france and i stayed in france for about 16 years six years six years yes and i started music when i was 12. so i picked up the mandolin banjo then the guitar and i did most of my most of my work musician work with the electric guitar like i lived in in the states and i did some few recordings and i backed up some blues musicians and uh time for me to go back to my country then i discovered the music from from the island and i said well i have to learn and pick them instruments and learn them also i left the guitar a little bit aside so i i i picked up the traditional instruments and i'm a composer singer so in my work i just like i did blues for so many years so i just see the vision of the blues and the music from madagascar so that's what i mainly do now is i'm living in paris and do i do like festivals i've been playing japan canada states and in about 17 countries in africa and i'm producing two uh musicians from madagascar and i'm very glad to be here because for different reasons because i already work here a few years ago three years ago and that that was that just like great happiness and i'm very happy to be here because i don't have that too much opportunity to work with the dance especially with a great dancer like my brother here [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] okay thank you very much for the transition thanks a lot uh so louis saller the dancer and your brother could you please present yourself yes uh thank you so much well my name is uh luis sala uh known as lulu sala which is uh the name uh everyone calls me but i'm a dancer i'm a… Read the full text about 1,868 words
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