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The
TcheTche
Company of Contemporary
Dance

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.
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1999
UNESCO award at the African market of Arts and Spectacles in
Abidjan. |
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Second
Price of the African Choreographic Meeting in Madagascar, 1999.
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"Discover
RFI Living Show" award in Paris in 1999. |
History
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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).
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The
Manager
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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.
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The
Choregrapher
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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.
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The
Dancers
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Kombe cf. above. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The
Parteners
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Market
of Arts and African Spectacle (MASA) |
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PSIC
(support program for the decentralized cultural initiatives,
financed by the European Union) |
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French
Arts Center of Abidjan - Côte d'Ivoire |
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ATI
Limited |
To contact TcheTche troup.
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