VENUE: 
TANZ IM AUGUST
TANZNACHT

PREMIERE: 
AUGUST 12, 2023

INVITED BY: 
RICARDO CARMONA AND
JULY WEBER

PERFORMANCE:
DJIBRIL SALL

STYLING:
DJIBRIL SALL AND NICO NAVARRO-RUEDA

PHOTOGRAPHY & DOCUMENTATION:
NAIMA MALEIKA | Tanz im August 2023
BICKMANN & KOLDE GbR

LENGTH:
10 MINUTES
35 MINUTES

Senegalese choreographer Djibril Sall will perform a summoning, offering his body up for possession by the Simb, in a performance that explores the compounding relationship between climate change and hypercapitalism and the resulting tension between an increasingly endangered cultural institution. In this performance, Djibril engages with tropes of the savage, the cannibal, the animist, and the witch doctor in a confrontational subversion of colonial pedagogy.