First Step
2024 - Director : Quillet, Agnès
Choreographer(s) : Adja, William (Togo) Yehouenou, Horace (Benin) Attissougbe, Thomas (Togo)
Present in collection(s): Don Sen Folo
Video producer : Don Sen Folo
First Step
2024 - Director : Quillet, Agnès
Choreographer(s) : Adja, William (Togo) Yehouenou, Horace (Benin) Attissougbe, Thomas (Togo)
Present in collection(s): Don Sen Folo
Video producer : Don Sen Folo
First Step
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First step
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Adja, William
ADJA William, whose artist name is Eldjine, was born on 31 December 1999 in Lomé into an animist family. His mother was a priestess and traditional dancer. She often danced blekété, gbékon and agbadja. Even at the age of 5, William accompanied his mother to ceremonies, rituals and traditional festivals to dance. It was in this way that he nurtured his love of dance over the years. In 2012, William discovered another style of dance, hip-hop, and fell in love with it. That same year, he decided to join Street King, his very first dance group. As a member of Street King, he took part in numerous national and international urban dance competitions. The group was international champion of the Moov dance crew in Benin in 2017. In 2018, he was international champion of Couleur Vacances in Burkina Faso. Building on his talent, William was recruited in 2014 to be one of Togolese singer Almok's dancers. In 2020, William took his very first contemporary dance course, the DTCA (Danse Traditionnelle et Création d'Aujourd'hui). Immediately afterwards, he never stopped looking for and creating training opportunities for himself. Until he finished Don Sen Folo's 3-year multidisciplinary training course ‘Corps pour XXIIe siècle - acte II’ in Bancoumana, Mali.
According to William, the impossible only exists in the mind, so he's ready at a moment's notice to put his intentions into practice. He recently performed in Bienvenue Bazié and Moïse Touré's Révélation (part of Don Sen Folo's Corps pour XXIIe siècle training programme) and in Abdoulaye Konaté's Mélopée ô berceau for the Fari Foni Watti #8 festival in Bamako, Mali.
Yehouenou, Horace
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Attissougbe, Thomas
Being surrounded by people who share my ambitions, support me and encourage me to go beyond my limits is the essential foundation of my artistic quest. I am ATTISSOUGBE MISSISSO Kokou Thomas, a young Togolese dancer who successfully completed the three-year training course entitled ‘Corps Pour XXIIe Siècle Acte II’ in Mali at DON SEN FOLO in collaboration with les INACHEVÉS and COMPAGNIE AUGUSTE BIENVENUE. My artistic journey is based on the desire to express my dance to the world, to meet others and to engage in exchanges to nourish my human and artistic growth. Interpretation, performance and choreography are the disciplines I use to share my creativity with the world. Inspired by my own experience, my daily life and that of those around me, I'm constantly enriching my art, always on the lookout for new knowledge and experiences. Having completed my training, I remain determined to showcase Togo's diversity and cultural richness through my dance. My deepest motivation lies in the desire to contribute to the evolution of my native society and, more globally, to that of the world. So, in charting my course, I'm committed to being an active agent of change, conveying universal messages through my art, in a perpetual quest for positive impact.
kone, Lassina
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Quillet, Agnès
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Don Sen Folo
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First Step
Artistic direction / Conception : Lassina KONE
Choreography : Horace Yehouenou & William Adja & Thomas Attissougbe
Interpretation : Horace Yehouenou & William Adja & Thomas Attissougbe
Video conception : Agnès Quillet
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Don Sen Folo
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Don Sen Folo
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