Lyon's Confluences Museum Celebrates Sogo Bō, Mali's Popular Theater Under Threat
An exhibition dedicated to masks and puppets from Mali's "animal theater" shines a light on a tradition inscribed in UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage since 2014.
The Confluences Museum in Lyon is presenting an exhibition titled "In Mali, When Animals Dance," dedicated to sogo bō, an ancestral popular theater form from central-western Mali, according to RFI.
Sogo bō means "the animals come out" in the Bambara language, the media outlet notes. The exhibition presents 110 masks, puppets and instruments from the collection of Sonia and Albert Loeb, with about a hundred pieces donated to the museum, according to RFI.
This theatrical tradition, which blends art, music and memory, was inscribed on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list in 2014, RFI reports. The media outlet presents this exhibition as an invitation to a journey along the banks of the Niger River, discovering this artistic universe.
RFI describes this popular theater tradition as "under threat," though the available excerpt does not elaborate further on the reasons or precise nature of the threat facing this Malian cultural practice.
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