Fatou and Tidiani (Conversation)

49 rue du Coudray, Nantes

Tidiani N’Diaye and Fatou Traoré have known each other for fifteen years. He comes from Mali, she lives in Brussels. They are separated by a generation. This first duo, at the crossroads of multiple times and spaces, stages a dance of connection: between friendship, history and transmission.\n\nTidiani meets Fatou in Bamako, in 2009. He is a student at the Donko Seko cultural center, she is invited to accompany young choreographers. The two artists have mirror trajectories: she discovers Mali arriving from Belgium, he leaves Bamako for France. Their dance is inhabited by questions of identity…