Dance in the theater of Koffi Kwahulé is a conundrum: the author himself notes that his characters speak a lot and move very little. Dance seldom shows up in choreographic numbers. It is, however, both present and absent, and it is buried in the on-stage bodies. This essay shows that dance is a hidden dramaturgical aspect of many of Kwahulé’s plays: it introduces otherness, or radically different elements into characters, space, time.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques