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TWO MEN AND A CELLO – Ghana and Nigeria 2003
Press
GRAPHIC SHOW ACCRA (GHANA) 20.02.2003 (John Owoo
: The dancer and the Cellist)
A brilliant performance at the Alliance Française in Accra. Performing against a bare scenary, the duo made use of space behind the stage thereby revealing places that are normally concealed from the audience. As they sang, chanted and danced, linguistic and cultural barriers seemed to disolve into a serie of African jargons and cliches. Indeed, the amazing complicity between the dancer and musician created a performance that went beyond normal productions - it emerged from nowhere and gathered momentum with images that expressively revealed themself.
THE MONITOR (NIGERIA) 28.2.2003 (Zacheus:
Exchange programme with the Swiss Embassy)
A dream comes true to Chief Olorutoba, the exchange programme will start in Oshogbo-Osun State today when Swiss dancer Philippe Olza and German Cellist Matthias Hermann Ibach thrill indigenes to a contemporary dance performance at the Oba’s Palace.
NIGERIAN SUNDAY TRIBUNE
(NIGERIA) 2.3.2003 (Seite Zwölf: Two Men and a Cello)
(...) The music-space-time performance Two Men and a Cello provide the quite different cultures of Central Europe and West Africa with an opportunity to become better acquainted with one another.
DAILY INDEPENDENT LAGOS
(NIGERIA) 12.3.2003 (Sola Balogun: 25 years after, artists rekindle Duro Lapidos’s legacy)
(...) The integration of the respective performance situation and environment is central to the artistic concept where dance and music serve as a bridge in a playful combination of French, German and English.
TANZ JOURNAL BASEL 2003 N° 2 (Felizitas
Ammann : Two men and a cello on a journey through Africa)
(...) Unusual performance venues as part of an unusual tour. Philippe Olza and Matthias Hermann Ibach visited Nigeria and Ghana in March. (...) Their work, a combination of dance, theatre, improvisation and song, dramatic and playful, thrives on light irony and subversion. The two continually strive to break with convention, to confound expectations. They present possibilities for contact on a non-political and human level in a post-colonial era.
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