BALLET SOURAKHATA                                                             Fonder. To Sale Keita

 

an artistic groupe was created in the Republic of Guinea as an assossiation and a dance & music troupe with a purpose  of promoting, maintaining and developing the Guinean original culture. The Ballet is focused on preserving the national cultural patrimony, which includes traditional Guinea music, rhythms, dances, instruments and costumes, as well as initiating and introducing cultural changes in their environment. The group gathers financial, material and also human resources around their cultural and social-forming activities.

 
Ballet Sourakhata was founded in 1998 in the Guinean capital, Conakry, in the house of Madamme Diallo Ne To Sale  Keita, where the attempt took place during the first two years of existence the group.

With the progresive development of the ballet, it changed the seat until it moved to the district of Matam, where artists practicing today.

In 2001, the Ballet Sourakhata won the first award at a festival

organized by the l'AGHT (Guinean Association of Theathre). In 2005, won second prize in the first edition of the Guinean Dance and Percussion Week. From that moment Sourakhata was present in alleditions of this great festival.

The Sourakhata musicians playing djembe, dundun, slit drums - Krin and balafones. They accompanies a group of dancers, who also are actors and play the various roles that build the plot of the performance.

Dance and music performances tell universal stories of human relationship, full of magical elements derived from the folklore of many ethnic groups living in Guinea.

A common theme in the stories presented by the artists from Sourakhata is the forest full of mysticism, the most important place of exciting events, especially after dark.

The stories move the viewer in a realm of witches, devils and dark powers as well as praising the timeless values of loyalty, brotherhood, diligence, honesty and friendship.

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