CCAM + YUAG + CAS Present: Lacina Coulibaly

Lacina Coulibaly, Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies at Yale, shares a new performance inspired by the Ẹpa masks on view in the Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibition Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition. In the framework of Lacina’s practice, which is grounded in a conversation among dance cultures — West African and European, traditional and contemporary — the piece engages the Nigerian woodcarver Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè’s artistry in a creative dialogue extended to Yale and New Haven. It also features set design and animation by Yale School of Architecture students Alex Wardle-Solano and Nabil Haque.