Africa! Africa!
Africa! Africa! is the name of a show by André Heller under the motto "Continent of Amazement", which premiered on December 15, 2005 in Frankfurt am Main. According to ticket sellers, it has had over three million viewers to date in various European guest performances. According to a press release in the Nürnberger Nachrichten, the production is considered "the most successful circus show in Europe", although this press release comes from the organizer himself. Some time ago a second production of the show was launched.
The show took place in a circus tent from 2005 to 2008 and combines artistry, dance, music and singing with an imaginative mask and exotic scents.
However, Heller split from the show after some of the African artists charged allegations of exploitation, racism and neo-colonial behavior by the producer. From October 2013 to February 2014 André Heller went with "Afrika! Afrika!" again on tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland with a new production "especially for theaters and smaller halls", according to the organizer at the time.
The show has been on tour again since January 2018 - this time directed by Georges Momboye, who was involved in all productions from 2005 to 2014 as a dancer, choreographer and "right hand man" by André Heller. Together with the artistic director Winston Ruddle, who comes from Zimbabwe , Momboye hired artists from Ethiopia , Tanzania , Kenya , Senegal , Egypt , South Africa and the Ivory Coast , but also from the United States and Europe.
literature
- André Heller: Luna Luna . Made possible by Neue Revue, photographically documented by Sabine Sarnitz, essay by Hilde Spiel, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-00047-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ 3 sat online
- ↑ Deutsches Theater Munich, NEW PRODUCTION IN THE SPIRIT OF ANDRÉ HELLER [1] Retrieved on April 24, 2019