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The Spanish choreography collective Kor'sia deals with dance as an artistic possibility to break down and comment on the behaviour of human society. In their latest choreography, which they are developing with the dancers of Of Curious Nature, the two choreographers Antonio de Rosa & Mattia Russo determine the place - or rather the non-place - as the starting point of their creative process.

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Ende Mai 2023 brachte Kossi eine neue Idee des zeitgenössischen Tanzes nach Bremen und Bruchhausen-Vilsen, die vom "Fonds Darstellende Künste" gefördert wurde. 
Das Ziel war es, die traditionellen afrikanischen Tanzformen weiterzuentwickeln oder zu transformieren und vor allem die verschiedenen Bewegungen der Wirbelsäule, des Beckens und des Brustbeins zu entwickeln. Traditionelle afrikanische Tänze sind oft von Tieren inspiriert, wie z.B. ihre Art zu gehen, zu rennen, zu spielen ... im Grunde ihr gesamtes Leben. 

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In his choreography, Kossi S. Aholou-Wokawui interrogates dawn as a state in which everything unconscious of the night resonates, bubbling under the surface and pushing up the unexpected with unimagined force, lava-like. "Ezan-Kélé (dawn in the Ewe language) has its creative origin in my memories of the nocturnal and early morning movements of people in rural Togo: an in-between state between dreaming and waking, half asleep, encountering others and oneself in the darkness." (Kossi S. Aholou-Wokawui)

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With BE-GREIFEN, Of-Curious-Nature dancer Kossi S. Aholou-Wokawui (Togo/Bremen) presents her own solo work that deals with the colonial past between Bremen and Togo. How can the ancestors, whose masks and artefacts are stored in German museums, be liberated through today's body and tell stories in dance? Aholou-Wokawui approaches this important subject in the form of physical processing through trance; with dancing depth, lightness, elegance and vehemence, he gives the forgotten their voice. The dancer combines West African and European elements in his choreography and opens a long overdue dialogue in dance.

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Kossi S. Aholou-Wokawui has received a grant from the "Fonds Darstellende Künste" for her new Afro Somatic Research in the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR and in the framework of #TakeHeart.