La Dernière Danse du Monarch is the last part of a triptych by Babacar Cissé about wolves. The first part was about the meeting between two wolves, the second part about the wolf’s place in the group. In this third part, Cissé, as the old wolf, gives one last dance to tell his story. The story of the Monarch butterfly who left home and hearth to find a better future in another country. This dance of the wolf is a mix of dance, music and performance in which intimacy, memory, aging and the inexorability of time come together. It is the story of four butterflies. The first butterfly, grandfather of the wolf and Senegalese archer, the second butterfly, father of the wolf who left his native land to give his children a better life, the third butterfly, the wolf himself who struggles to live in a white society in which a black man often provokes prejudice and the fourth butterfly, the wolf’s daughter. Will she be able to live the peaceful life that we all aspire to? The four butterflies tell the story of their dreams and their pursuit, about transience and things that pass.

credits

Choreography:               Babacar Cissé & Germaine Acogny
Dance:                              Babacar Cissé,
Special presence:          Germaine Acogny (via video projection)
Light:                                Yvan Labasse
Production:                     Les Associés Crew
Length:                            60 min