(12 Nov 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso – 28 October 2024
1. Wide of installation at the Recreatrales festival ++NIGHT SHOT++
2. Various of people performing in play entitled “You say IDP”, being performed by internally displaced people ++NIGHT SHOTS++
3. Performer Fanta Charlotte Dabone on stage ++NIGHT SHOT++
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Fanta Charlotte Dabone, performer: ++NIGHT SHOT++
“When I’m on stage, I’m very happy, in the moment. It’s when I have to go back home that these thoughts start coming back in my head.”
5. Installations in festival grounds
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso – 29 October 2024
6. Claude Ilboudo, actor and resident of the Bougsemtenga neighbourhood where the festival is held, talking to festival staff
7. Ilboudo walking in courtyard by his home
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Claude Ilboudo, actor, Bougsemtenga resident:
“Recreatrales for me represents hope. It’s hope for me, personally. And hope for the neighbourhood that hosts the festival.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso – 28 October 2024
9. Various of festival installations
10. Various of the Recreatrales artistic director, Aristide Tarnagda
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Aristide Tarnagda, artistic director, Les Recreatrales:
“To continue to do something like theatre is to affirm above all the primacy of life over death, the primacy of love, of joy, of celebration, of fraternity, over all that is violent. This is to refuse (the violence) in fact. It is to let oneself be affirmed forever as a poet, as an artist, as a dancer, as a choreographer, as a man of theatre. We will (not) give in to violent extremism, to barbarity.”
12. Children running and playing
13. Various of people getting their faces painted at festival
STORYLINE:
The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African country of Burkina Faso.
She fled her village after it was attacked by extremists, leaving her husband and her farm behind. Since then, she has been moving from place to place, struggling to pay rent and to buy enough food for her children, including a 2-year-old toddler.
But last month, she got to be a queen.
Every day for a week, together with dozens of other Burkinabe men and women who have been displaced by extremist violence, she swirled, danced and chanted for almost two hours in front of captivated audiences at Recreatrales, an international theatre festival held in Ouagadougou, the country’s capital.
“When I’m on stage, I’m very happy, in the moment," she said.
"It’s when I have to go back home that these thoughts start coming back in my head.”
Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation of 23 million in Sahel, an arid strip of land south of the Sahara, used to be known for its bustling arts scene, including renowned film and theatre festivals, and its sophisticated craftsmanship.
But in recent years, the country has become the symbol of the security crisis in the region. It has been shaken by violence from extremist groups and the government forces fighting them, much of it spilling over the border with Mali, and by two ensuing military coups.
The military junta, which took power by force in 2022, failed to provide the stability it promised.
Instead, the situation deteriorated: According to conservative estimates, more than 60% of the country is now outside of government control, more than 2 million people have lost their homes and almost 6.5 million need humanitarian aid to survive.
He used to work as a glazier, dancing was just his pastime.
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