Spectacle “Yongoyély”

"Yongoy%E9ly" Show - Circus Baobab, Circus Arts and Dance

A Sensational Circus Journey into Guinean Life
With “Yongoy%E9ly” (meaning “the circumciser” in the Soussou dialect), director Yann Ecauvre and Kerfalla Camara, director of the legendary Circus Baobab, continue their artistic collaboration following “Y%E9!” in 2023. Their new production pays tribute to feminine power, the central role of women, and their resilience in the face of life’s trials.

It plunges us into the frenzy of the streets of Conakry, where we discover the daily lives of a handful of women and men who, amid dust and cinder blocks, music and song, shouts and dance, tell their stories through all the disciplines of the circus— aerial acrobatics, acrobatics with surprising apparatus—logs, small tree trunks that transform into Chinese poles, Russian bars, or tightrope ropes—their hope for a better life. Thus, the women are liberated—through the strength of their commitment—from the obligations and mutilations imposed on them by a society in the throes of upheaval.

Ages 8 and up
8:30 p.m. at the Coutances Municipal Theater.
Reservations required.