Urban scraps aimes to transcribe images, sensations, atmospheres and architectures of the city, habits and relations between the various groups of today's society. These elements that are nearby often go unnoticed while they constitute the richness of our trace in the city.   Through different successive passages, this choreographic piece highlights elements chosen by the choreographer. These passages are restored by the emotion of the bodies, the dance movements, the aesthetics proposed - as so many evocations of our imprint in the city.   "Impossible to go home without falling on the anger of the parents. The cobblestones and the sand slide under my feet, at random from the paths taken. The hours pass, gaping scraps of history that the city offers me".   

Source: show program.   Performed on Friday November 23, 2012, Théâtre de Verdure de l'Institut Français de Cotonou, within the Event organized by Fondation Zinsou and entilted "Dansons Maintenant !".

Dancer, singer and choreographer, Awoulath Alougbin was born in Benin and grew up in Porto Novo, the administrative capital. She expanded her knowledge of traditional Beninese dances during her training at the National Ballet of Benin where she stayed for two years. In 1997, thanks to her uncle, the director Dine Alougbin, she met the Haitian choreographer Kettly Noël based in Cotonou who introduced her to contemporary dance. She took part in "Danser la vie" in 1998 and "Ilô" the following year.
In 2001, she took part in the Atelier du monde initiated by Mathilde Monnier during the Montpellier dance festival.
A performer in "Les feuilles qui résistent au vent", by the Beninese choreographer Koffi Kokko, and "The Rite of Spring", by the Franco-Algerian choreographer Heddy Maalem, she simultaneously embarked on choreographic research, continuing to draw her inspiration from traditional Yoruba dance. With other Beninese dancers, she founded the group SACAM danse, before creating her own company, the Cie Awoulath Alougbin. In 2004, she signed the piece Aga Oba, created with the Beninese Clément Kakpo and the Nigerian Qudus Onikeku. The following year, she performed in a solo entitled Les Petites Calebasses. In 2009, she created "#1 ange" which combines choreographic movements, songs and texts that she performs alone on stage.
In 2010, she was awarded a Visa pour la création Grant, which allowed her to develop personal research during a residency in Bordeaux. In 2014, she moved to Brussels and coordinated Radio Transit Lab, which brings together musicians from diverse backgrounds. She organizes dance workshops and is active as a cultural mediator for the Royal Flemish Theater (KVS). In November 2021, she presents her latest choreography "Aro Ilé" there, in which she seeks to show the connection between krump and Vodoun ritual dances.
Source: Dansons Maintenant!, Catalog, 2011 Edition Fondation Zinsou, 2012.
http://fondationzinsou.blogspot.com/2012/10/interview-avec-awoulath-alougbin.html

Programme du spectacle Bribes Urbaines, « Dansons Maintenant ! », Fondation Zinsou, 2012.

https://www.kvs.be/fr/cast/5608/Awoulath_Alougbin

Fondation Zinsou has recorded all the performances given during the festival "Dansons Maintenant !" "that was organized in 2011, 2012 and 2015 in Cotonou, Benin. Interviews of dancers and choreographers invited for the festival were also realized.

These recordings and interviews have been uploaded on Numeridanse as a courtesy with the aim of making them reachable by many people as possible, taking into account their scientific nature and their contribution to the dissemination and promotion of contemporary African art, more particularly  the field of contemporary African dance.

Directed by Marie-Cécile Zinsou, the Zinsou Foundation opened its doors in June 2005 in Cotonou, Benin. A pioneer in West Africa, it works to promote contemporary art in Africa. Platform and exhibition center for contemporary African artists particularly Benin artists, in the Ouidah Museum and in the Lab, at Cotonou, the Foundation also acts for the promotion of education and social development through cultural and educational activities aimed in particular at young audiences,  with the major challenge of free accessibility . In 2011, the Zinsou Foundation exhibited Antoine Tempé's dance photographs and invited choreographers to create a work in situ, in resonance with the images of exposed bodies. The  success of this event entitled “Dansons Maintenant !", (Let's Dance Now!) convinces the Foundation to organize a second edition, in 2012, dedicated solely to dance, around the theme of urbanity. In 2015, a third edition took place, in conjunction with the “African Records” exhibition devoted to African music and photography from the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s, which provided the motive for new co-productions of performances. The three editions of "Dansons Maintenant ! " 2011, 2012 and 2015 have all been recorded on video  (shows, restitutions of workshops, interview) and make an archive collection of 120 videos. 

The extracts from the Archive collection of "Dansons Maintenant !" have been made available free of charge by the Zinsou Foundation.

  The deposit of the video archives of "Dansons maintenant !", belonging to Fondation Zinsou was made possible thanks to the Centre National de la Danse Research award in dance, granted in 2021 to Dr Anne Décoret-Ahiha for her research project "Consolidation of the African choreographic field: focus on Benin" and with the kind permission of the artists.