TRIP INFORMATION 26. November - 10. Desember’22 / 2 weeks 1.400€
HEALING DANCES, SONGS AND PERCUSSION FROM MANDINKA AND DJOLA ETHNIC GROUPS
Casamance is a land rich of green, water, sacred trees, animistic dances, rituals and ethnic groups. The people from Casamance are known as women centred society resisting imperial and colonial forces. We will join their daily life, experiencing dance as a life integrated and social practice.
WEEK I : from 26. November to 3. Desember 2022:
Daily schedule* in Center Casamance - Diakene Wolof / Oussouye - Lower Casamance**
9h Breakfast (moringa juice, bread, jam, tomato sauce, coffee and traditional herbs infusion)
10h to 12h Afromandinka Healing Dances with Miriamba and percussion alive.
14h Lunch (vegeterian variety of dishes from the center)
15:30h Visits and activities
1.Impluvium ancestral houses 2.Dance cercle with Djola woman 3.Traditional Fabrics Workshop 4. Oussouye village with democratic traditional King 5. Effraine Island
20h Dinner (vegeterian variety of dishes from the center)
WEEK II : from 3. to 10. Desember 2022
Daily schedule* in Artistic Center CASA- Abéne, living with the group Foret Sacrée ***
9h Breakfast: Cleaning herbs infusion, fruits, bread, butter, homemade jam, coffee and tea.
10h - 12h Traditional healing dances from Casamance, Djola and Mandinka ethnic groups, with Foret Sacrée group and live music
1.Ekonkon (Djola Etnie) 2. Dimbaya (Woman healing) 3. Dundunba (Mandinka Etnie)
FREE TIME (beach 5 minutes walking)
14h Lunch (vegeterian variety of dishes from the center)
15h - 16h Traditional healing songs from Casamance
16.30h Cultural Excursion
1.Sacred Tree (Bantan Wooro) 2.Traditional Market and Tailor 3. Arrival of fishermen’s during the sunset on the beach
4. Kafountine village - permaculture project Art Oasis
20h Dinner (complet salad, eggs, beans, fruits and other dishes) and local herbs infusion
For more informations please contact Miriam by email:
coordination@tanz-der-kulturen.deTo know more about Miriam, founder of Afroalamuta organisation and Artistic Cener CASA visit this profile: (add Miriam’s profile as a coordinator and dancer in Tdk)
*schedule will be adapted to the situation and needs of the group
** ABOUT TURISTIC AND CUTLURAL CENTER CASAMANCE:
http://casamance.cc/es/***ABOUT THE ARTISTIC CENTER CASA:
Welcome to the Artistic and Cultural Center CASA* in Abéne.
The Center is located in the northern coast area of the village of Abéne, in Upper Casamance, South Senegal, very close to the Gambian border. It’s a fisherman village where we will be based and live together with Foret Sacrée company. The artists of the company will be with us at the center, they are part of the staff to make the trip possible. CASA is located 5 minutes from the beach and 15 minutes from town, in the Bolong neighbourhood.
The rooms are double or triple, with bathroom and indoor shower. The dining area/bar in the center offers drinks and meals. Tap and well water is not drinkable, we recommend buying a 10-litre jug per person and refilling a 1.5-litre bottle.
Tap water is scarce, there is not much pressure in the tap so you may have to go to the well in front of the house in the morning to fill the water buckets for the shower, toilet and washbasin (if you can't/wan't to, you can always tip one of the staff to do this).
There are electricity facilities, although depending on the time of year there are many power cuts, so at least electricity will be provided by a generator every night from 19h in order to be able to charge the mobile phones and have light at dusk.
