Yaye Daro

Toubab Bounoul is a mix of clattering percussion, hypnotic rhythms, high energy dance circles, group choreos, popping 808s and polyphonic choral singing. This collective of Afro Europeans creates a portal into their world. Throughout the journey, bodies merge. Individuals merge while dancing with light and projections. The group moves together as one body. Toubab Bounoul takes time to re-energize and connect.

…Take a moment to disconnect and reconnect.
To discover how to start our own tribe.

Starting from certain traditional dance and percussion rituals – for which they draw from the cultural baggage in the collective – they reshape them. An attempt to connect with their roots, ancient African technologies while respecting the original traditions.

An authentic feel that they can fully appropriate. Yaye Daro, which means mother Daro in Wolof, is a multidisciplinary artist with Senegalese, Frisian and Belgian roots, whose practice revolves around frequencies and shaping them. Although music and sound form the core of his creative output, he is deeply interested in – and influenced by – all kinds of frequencies, for example: light, colors, bodily frequencies, but also smells (does it also see frequencies?).

In his work, he tries to find out what they mean. How they influence us. How different types of frequencies influence each other, and mainly how they culminate in virtuous circles/cycles.

Yaye Daro is Kamal Tall’s stage name. This season Kamal was featured as a performer in A day is a hundred years (Jozef Wouters, Toneelhuis).
Yaye Daro has performed in Radiant Nights, the Babelbühne and Trix in Antwerp, Mundo moves in Leuven, Maison du peuple, Plein de jeux, Botanique, Kunstenfestival des arts and Stoemp in Brussels and Secrètes sessions in the United Kingdom.

Concept and performance: Yaye Daro, this show moment in collaboration with Ruberwa Mutabazi , Youssu Tall.