CCAM + YUAG + CAS Present: Lacina Coulibaly

Event time: 
Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (YORK149) See map
149 York St
New Haven, CT 06511

Dancer, choreographer, and Yale faculty member Lacina Coulibaly shares a new performance inspired by the Ẹpa masks created by the Nigerian woodcarver Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè (1885–1975).
In the framework of Lacina’s practice grounded in a conversation among dance cultures — West African and European, traditional and contemporary — his piece inflects Bámigbóyè’s artistry in a creative dialogue offered and extended to Yale and New Haven.
Supported through a collaboration between Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Council on African Studies, the piece is presented at CCAM’s Leeds Studio in dialogue with the gallery’s exhibition on the Nigerian artist, Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition. Curated by James Green, it is the first exhibition devoted to Bámigbóyè’s workshop and will be on view through January 8, 2023.
Audiences are encouraged to visit the exhibition in order to enrich their experience and conversation around Lacina’s performance. Details available at: https://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/bamigboye-master-scul…