It is in Fanghoumé, Senegalese village, that took shape at the invitation of Germaine Acogny, "Grande Dame" of contemporary African Dance, more than thirty years ago, "Lufus", a piece of contemporary dance. Disconcerting, singular and rewarded, in 1986, at the international choreographic competition of Bagnolet / Paris.

"Vorgänge", this Austrian collective, young at that time, who had invented "Lufus" and who had danced the creation in Fanghoumé in the sacred wood of the priestess Aloopho, no longer exists for a long time. However, the piece, its idea, its shape, its atmosphere have never left one of the members of this collective: During the last thirty years, Editta Braun searched, again and again, around "Lufus" with its own company. She has enriched and transcended this theater of bodily illusion with an exclusively female distribution with almost naked bodies, she has, in changing contexts, constantly reinterpreted. "Lufus" has become "Luvos", readable as a comment to the disturbing excesses of genetics, as the evocation of fascinating and seductive underwater worlds. The beings of "Luvos" were humanoids, plants, vermin, monsters, abstractions.

Today, Editta Braun returns, with three dancers from her company, to the place where it all began. The latest of her creations around this theme begins a brand new stage that bears the name of this place: Fanghoumé. A tribute.

dance, research: Anna Maria Müller, Martyna Lorenc, Sonia Borkowicz

lightdesign: Thomas Hinterberger

technical assistance: Zapo Babilée

dramaturgy: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau

idea, choreography: Editta Braun

length: 48 minutes

funded by Österreichisches Bundeskanzleramt Kunst, Stadt Salzburg, Land Salzburg, Ambassade Autrichienne Dakar, Ecole de Sable