{"id":102259,"date":"2023-09-28T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/termin\/other-en\/blick-bassy-bikutsi-3000-102259\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T15:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:31:04","slug":"blick-bassy-bikutsi-3000","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/performance-en\/blick-bassy-bikutsi-3000-102259\/","title":{"rendered":"Blick Bassy – Bikutsi 3000"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With BIKUTSI 3000, the Cameroonian artist Blick Bassy creates a multi-media event between dance, music, show, video and decolonial historical narrative.<\/p>\n

Beginning with the division of the African continent by the colonial powers in 1884\/85, the piece unfolds a narrative that expands into to the year 2050, and celebrates dance as an act of resistance.<\/p>\n

Based on the tradition of Bikutsi, a traditional Cameroonian music and dance form, it creates an energetic and dense show – a feminist manifesto in which women are the driving force of social and global change. BIKUTSI 3000 is a powerful reflection on one’s own identity, patriarchal power structures and productive ways to free oneself from perpetuating colonial structures.<\/p>\n

The Cameroonian musician, writer and director originally staged BIKUTSI 3000 for the Muse\u00e9 Quai Branly in Paris, but his vision goes far beyond that. He wants to create an army of dancers that will carry the Bikutsi into the world. The Humboldt Forum is showing both a guest performance version of the piece with dancers from Cameroon (7 – 10 Dec.) as well as a new version that is being developed together with Afro-Diasporic dancers from Berlin (14 – 17 Dec.).<\/p>\n

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