The Company
The TcheTche Company of Contemporary Dance

TchéTché
Photography William Strauch

In Bété language (an ethnic group from the western center Côte d'Ivoire), TCHETCHE means eagle which symbolically represents the power, glory and the domination. It is the strong symbol which gives energy to this young company full with ambition which dreams to fly high in a clear sky of contemporary choreographic creation.

Bridji Lebri Béatrice Kombe Nadia Beugle Flavienne Lagon


1999 UNESCO award at the African market of Arts and Spectacles in Abidjan.
Second Price of the African Choreographic Meeting in Madagascar, 1999.
"Discover RFI Living Show" award in Paris in 1999.



History

Company TCHETCHE was created on June the 1st, 1997 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It was born from a common passion for the dance of two young people of the Ivory Coast: Guillaume Bridji Lebri, artistic manager and Beatrice Kombe, choreographer.
This young company, exclusively female, already mark the scene with its four dancers trained in various companies which they left to form group TCHETCHE. Dynamic and interdependent, they incarn the African urban youth, avid of discover and changes.

As regards dance, the Western area is very rich. Among most known, one can find the temate of Facobly (homage of the girls to the spirits for an abundant rice harvest), dance of the waders of Gouessesso and Danane (choreographic imagination and gymnic skills of the young masked people wearing 3 meters high stilts), the Gouah dance (collective gratefulness gesture of the initiated youngs addressed to the beneficial Gods).



The Manager

Jeety Bridji Lebri was born on December 17th, 1970 in Abidjan. His course started in 1990 with the creation of the group Pop Rock'n'roll of the Ivory Coast Glay' Doo which resides in London. In 1995, he gives up his university studies to follow his passion: artistic management. In 1997, he takes part in the MASA with a company of dance of the Ivory Coast, the Lakimado, and manages the career of a mythical rock'n'roll band of the Sixties in Ivory Coast : the Black Devils. In parallel, he follows a training course to Marseilles at the "Mur du son" directed by Cati Antonelli and takes part in Womex (World Music Exposition) 97 in Marseilles. When he returns to Abidjan, he created the TCHETCHE Company with Beatrice Kombé. In 1999, it takes part in the MASA 97 with TCHETCHE.

Currently he also manages musical groups : Sakoloh, Gbazza Fitgaro et Glay' Doo. For more information on his producting association "Jeety's", you can visit the site www.jeetys.com.

Jeety


The Choregrapher
Béatrice Kombe

Béatrice Kombe was born on April 05, 1971 in Côte.d'ivoire from a father himself dancer. At the age of twelve, she started with the professional scene in the ballet group of Marahoue. After several years of experiment in traditional dance, she integrates the Tenzo group in 1992 in which she plays the role of assistant choreographer. In February 1997, with the Lakimado Company, she takes part in the 3rd edition of the MASA. Since June 1997, she is a choreographer of the TCHETCHE Company. In 1998, by the means of exchanges, she helps the N'soleh Company to win the 1st Price in the Second African Contemporary Choreographic Creation Meeting in Luanda, Angola.

Her first creation with Company TCHETCHE, "DIMI", had UNESCO price in the MASA, 1999. Her second creation, "WITHOUT REFERENCE", obtained the second Price at the Third African Contemporary Choreographic Creation Meetings in Tananarive, Madagascar in 1999.



The Dancers
Béatrice Kombe cf. above.  
Nina Kipre

Nina Kipre was born on September 23, 1976 in Bingerville , Ivory Coast. She began her career within Djolem in 1994, then she integrates the Lakimado Company in 1996 with which she obtained the first Price of the "francophonie" in Madagascar in 1998. She integrated TCHETCHE Company in 1998.

Nadia Beugre was born on March 5, 1981 in Zikisso in Ivory Coast. She made her first appearances within the Dante Theatre in 1995. Since 1998, she is a member of the TCHETCHE company.

Nadia  Beugre
Flavienne Lagon

Flavienne Lagon, born on October 11, 1980 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. She begans her career within the "Joed Système" in 1994 which leads her to take part in the " Variétoscope " Ivory Coast contest . In 1997, with this same group, she obtains the second Variétoscope Price. Since 1998, she is member of the TCHETCHE Company.



The Parteners

Market of Arts and African Spectacle (MASA)
PSIC (support program for the decentralized cultural initiatives, financed by the European Union)
French Arts Center of Abidjan - Côte d'Ivoire
ATI Limited


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