Worldpremiere in Saint-Louis

It's time.

Early early in the morning we leave L'ecole des Sables and Toubab Dialaw to start our tour. We're heading for Saint-Louis where Alioune is from. Together with a teacher and students at Ecole Francaise he is working on a truly amazing project about movement and text, and what could be more suitable than to have our worldpremiere there?!

The car we carefully and responsably ordered turns out to be too small, so as a true roadperformance we split the group and get two adventures for the price of one. Halfway to Saint-Louis we meet up in a setplace driven by one of Aliounes friends.

There are still many things to plan and to fix for the tour and also back in Sweden, and during the trip to Saint-Louis the setplace acts office, meditationcentre, foodcourt and much more.

Finally there! The Magic Suitcase gets to do some sightseeing and new adventures in Saint-Louis on the way to the school.

Before the performance we visited Aliounes family, and had the most delicious Yassa poisson prepared by one of his sisters. It was so good that if I'm not wrong Matti even finished the pimont!

As warming up-acts we had various groups of young dancers and dj's performing.

Also Ege, Modou, Anna and Alioune treated the audience with an improvisation while Maria was preparing the technical stuff with some of the djs.

Finally it was time for Projekt Invitation. The photos are taken by Matti.

As a true premiere it was a bit chaotic, not least with the technique. Afterwards it turned out we had not only Senegalese audience, but also a man from Skåne in Sweden!

Here are Modou, Ege, Maria, Alioune and Maaike, celebrating the premiere.

And the party continues the day after, even though we sadly have to continue our tour to Casamance without Alioune, Maaike and Matti.