To us, as african diaspora, the 12th edition of the International Dance Festival of Ouagadougou-FIDO is an important opportunity to rebuild past dialogues and create new ones with the african multiculturality. Dancing our history in the Mother Continent constitutes a profound spiritual reconection with our honored ancestors, particularly with those that were forced to cross the Atlantic Ocean over 500 years ago. This Festival offers the possibility to set up a communication path for their return through the language of dancing, music and poetry between the diaspora and today’s Africa. We can face the historical voids that colonialism left just by meeting and getting to know each other. Our proposal is to tell the stories of women who resisted slavery in different ways in Amefrica. An approach to honour and liberate them. Bring them black to Africa is a transgenerational healing, a spiritual reparation. That is why, for Trama Danza, a collective of research in afrodiasporic dancing, coming to Burkina Faso using the language that Africa left in our bodies, more than dancing, means sharing our history with those who remained in the core of the Mother land.

With your help, we will bring our women ancestors back to the Mother Continent.