Freiburg

Vines climb across the wall, leading the audience into the stage area of ​​the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles. Among wood chips, tree stumps, the traces of cleared forests, the Cameroonian choreographer Zora Snake unfolds his new work Combat des Lianes. One explores the stage: the massive tree stumps spread a sweet scent. Soft drums and polyphonic chants sound. In the center stands a hut; on its roof, a grim-looking head gazes at us admonishingly, and on its head sits an imposing treetop. This is the spirit of Edjengui, the guardian of the forest. The evening is dedicated to the resistance of the indigenous Baka communities of Central Africa against brutal deforestation.