Ballet Nimba
T1606178775
Created by Guinean choreographer Idrissa Camara in 2010. Ballet Nimba is an African Dance Theatre Company, combining traditional and contemporary Guinean dance with live music from some of West Africa's finest musicians.
Archive :: production:T1606178775, dance or ballet:S809632494, venue:V827
Saiyama/Payapaya
An evening of West African culture, mythology, dance and music from Wales s new African dance-theatre company, Ballet Nimba. The show features traditional and contemporary Guinean dance from six agile performers, the rare talents of a Fulani flute player and the rootsy sound of the Ngoni, the traditional African acoustic guitar. Combined with the rousing rhythms of some of West Africa s most talented percussionists, it ll be a challenge to stay seated during the performance. Fresh from a show at the Southbank in London, Ballet Nimba are performing a double bill featuring ?Saiyama and ?Payapaya . The extremely talented young Gambian multiinstrumentalist Sura Susso will be opening the evening in style - a rare opportunity to experience the joys of the kora (twenty-one stringed African harp).
