The Call of Dance is a raw, immersive collection of moments in modern Senegalese dance that captures the complexity of this new era of multiplicity. Throughout the film, dancers’ movements embody individuality, history, emotion, and aspiration, sharing everything from solitary meditations on the nuance of the everyday to the kinetics of collective experience. At the Dakar Cultural Center, in a Krump battle, by the ocean, before a wrestling contest, at a village initiation ceremony – all of life is a site for the medium of dance, and every stage contributes its own energy. In French with English subtitles.
The Call of Dance Skinscreen Productions Director: Diane Fardoun 2020 With La Mer Noire dance company – Khoudia Touré, Pierre «Dexter» Belleka – , Germaine Acogny, Siaka Sopo Traoré, Astou «Aicha» NdIaye, Cie Afreekanam (Pi Lamine Sow, Bakary Fall, Pape Sangone Viera), Moussa, Seny (team Ndakarou), Mère Absa, Charles Diagne, Hamdi «Mustafa» Fall, Mama cheikh Fall, Omar «Maestro» Badiane