Musée Dapper
Musée Dapper was a French museum specializing in African art. It was opened in May 1986,[1] and closed on 18 June 2017. The Dapper Foundation is still located at the same premises in the 16th arrondissement of Paris at 35 rue Paul Valéry, Paris, France.
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The museum opened in 1986, as an effort of the Olfert Dapper Foundation, and was named in honour of a Dutch humanist who in 1668 published an encyclopaedic description of Africa. In addition to a series of art exhibitions, the museum sponsored:
- dance featuring choreographers including Josiane Antourel (Martinique), Tchekpo Dan Agbetou (Bénin) and Irène Tassembedo (Burkina Faso);
- concerts featuring musicians such as Guem (Algeria/Niger), Ballaké Sissoko (Mali), Omar Sosa (Cuba), So Kalmery (DRC), Mariann Matheus (Guadeloupe), Jeff Baillard, and the group Xtrem’Jam (Martinique);
- plays including Atterrissage (Kangni Alem), directed by Denis Mpunga, and Les Enfants de la mer, an adaptation by the Martinique playwright José Exélis of the work by Edwidge Danticat;
- children’s shows (storytelling, circus, puppet shows), including Histoires du monde, performed by Naïf Théâtre, and Golotoé ou la gourde divine, by Danaye Kalanfeï;
- and seminars.
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References[edit]
- ^ "History of the Musee Dapper". EUtouring. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
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