KHARABA & GUESTS

A poetic reflection on money, for big, medium, and small

Loot, bread, dough, cash, funds, green, brass – which word do you use for money?
We know many terms for money, and yet we speak all to rarely about what it does to us, how it influences us, and how we could cope well with it. Not at school, not with friends, not even in many families. Knowledge is power, and that is why PINKE PINKE dismantles the dimensions of money on stage through dance and rap – to empower us all!
PINKE PINKE shows how money works and how we live in a global system of imbalance and arbitrariness that makes it actively harder for some while making it easier for some others to be wealthy. With money’s undeniable necessity, the artistic team asks: Could other forms of wealth, like creativity, vocational fulfilment, friendship, or love even compete?

Khadidiatou Bangoura originally comes from Liberia and Guinea. She was born in France and grew up in Germany. Khadidiatou Bangoura uses dance as a means to analyse our relations to ourselves, to our environment and to each other – for new narratives, a better self-awareness and more self-reflection. Among the artists she collaborated with are Okwui Okpokwasili, Ester Ambrosino (Tanztheater Erfurt), Rafaële Giovanola (Cocoon Dance), Jan Pusch, Melissa Guex, Felix Dompreh (Kuyum Arts), and Horacio Macuacua. Her own choreographic works include Adult-ish (2017), The heart is a muscle (2017), fight, flight, freeze (2020), Moving Structures (2021), FÜHL DIE WELT DURCH MEINE HAUT – Observations on everyday racism (2021), and LIFE IS A JUNGLE (2024).

She has been offering inclusive dance workshops for blind, visually impaired and seeing people interested in dance since March of 2023, and, since April 2024, she has additionally been hosting the PLAYTIME series where people interested in dance, with various backgrounds and levels of experience, come together to join in communal improvisation. She has also been serving as the artistic co-director of Cologne-based Sommerblut Kulturfestival since October of 2024.

From 8 years. For deaf, blind, hearing and sighted audiences. With auditive dramaturgy.

Use of loud music.
Duration: 50 – 60 min.

Accompanying programme
Audience discussions following the performance