Gospel Rivers
The James Carlès Danse Company and Emmanuel Pi Djob have been working together for almost 5 years on a creation combining music, dance, slam and video, based on the history and multiple movements of gospel music around the world.
The James Carlès Danse Company [jamescarles.com] and Emmanuel Pi Djob have been working together for almost 5 years, creating an event combining music, dance, slam and video, based on the history and multiple movements of gospel music around the world.
Through this approach, the show entitled Gospel Rivers seeks to translate the quest for harmony, the balance of male and female poles in the sacred. These are central themes in the spirituality of Africa and its diaspora, the ‘Black Continents’ as they are aptly named.
Gospel Rivers #5 “9 Femmes Puissantes” (9 Powerful Women), the opus created in 2023, refers both to Marie NDiaye’s novel, which won the Goncourt Prize in 2009, and to James Carlès’ project “12 portraits de femmes d’exception” (12 Portraits of Exceptional Women), which started in 2020. The project consists of telling, like modern-day storytellers, through song, music and dance, an epic slice of life of female personalities who have transformed the world and whose actions continue to be powerful inspirations, paths to be explored for today’s world. This show combines music, dance, song, slam, video and scenography, highlighting the history and evolution of gospel over time.
The project retains its original ambition of bringing together amateurs and top professionals for a performance.
A combination of creation and transmission, the performers will take to the stage and perform with professionals after many hours of coaching with groups of amateur singers and dancers.