CCBdance Project

The CCBdance Project has performed in Cannes, France, Kirchau, Germany, Berlin, Germany, Remsheid, Germany, San Francisco, New York, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Chicago, Des Moines, Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Grinnell, Iowa, Michigan, Baltimore, North Carolina, Trinidad, Cote D'Ivoire, Haiti, Mali, Senegal, Canada, Dubai, Instanbul, and Jamaica. Celia Weiss Bambara and Christian Bambara formed the company together incorporating works from they made independently and creating new dance work. Celia Weiss Bambara is the current artistic director. The company includes the choreography and collaboration of Lacina Coulibaly, Christian Bambara and Celia Weiss Bambara.
 
 The CCBdance Project is a bi-national pick-up company that is registered as a company in the Ivory Coast and fiscally sponsored by the Fractured Atlas in the United States. The CCBdance Prjoject is an African contemporary company that engages the thematic materials of anti- racism, translation, love, violence, travel and inter-culturalism. Our work seeks to create new worlds in which we can see/feel afro-modern realities across borders and boundaries. 
 
The CCBdance Project has performed new original works, improvisations, site-specific dances and works with  film and photography. We are also developing a formal dramaturgical process in our collaborative works with mentors, colleagues and collaborators. We seek to engage inter-media in our works as well as question based approach to making. Our processes for creation and production continue to take shape

Since, 2006 the CCBdance Project has engaged in new and in-depth collaborative processes with artists in Africa, Europe, and the United States. These collaborative endeavors have been guided by quite a few elders in the field and directed by Celia Weiss Bambara. This growing network and set or collaborative practices also engages deep notions of experimentalism as it also ties diasporas in practice and process. Flowing from out work with the praxis institute in Chicago between 2009-2010, the CCBdance Project has continued to grow ways of engaging with collaborative partners and methods for praxis that traverse dance, somatics, dramaturgy, theater, and spectatorial engagement.