FREDERICK, MD, March 24, 2023 — Combining theatre, dance, music, and astonishing acrobatic feats, the high- flying Afrique en Cirque by Cirque Kalabanté returned to the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick, Maryland on Sunday, April 23, 2023.
Presented by Wonderbook, Afrique en Cirque is a highly colorful creation featuring a handful of amazing acrobats, and musicians from Cirque Kalabanté, performing their authentic choreography to the frantic rhythms of djembes and other native instruments of Guinea. Kalabanté Productions was created in 2007 by Yamoussa Bangoura, a multidisciplinary artist of Guinean origin. Bangoura’s long-term dream was the founding of a school of circus arts and to direct his own multidisciplinary company specializing in the African arts. As the company director he develops his own shows, which over the past several years have been increasingly gathering attention and recognition in the Quebec circus arts community and worldwide.
In 2018, Kalabanté opened their own studio and school in Montreal, where there are continuous classes offered in African dance, cirque, and drumming. Kalabanté Productions also assists with the humanitarian mission to help the Guinean community, from which Bangoura and many of his company members originate.