Serge Aimé Coulibaly, is a dancer and choreographer from Burkina Faso. He was part of Compagny FEEREN for 8 years under the direction of Amadou Bourou. He participated in the compagny’s creations as an actor, dancer and musician and toured with the compagny throughout Africa and Europe.

Through the Compagny, he created a choreography for the opening of the African Footbal Cup in Burkina Faso in 1998. And in 1999, for the opening of FESPACO, the Pan-African Film Festival in Ouagadougou .

During his collaboration with FEEREN, Serge Aimé worked with well-known artists such as Catherine Dasté, Jacques Jouet, Seydou Boro, Jonattan Fox, Alassane Congo, Dany Kouyaté, Claude Brumachon, Benjamin Lamarche and David Zombrano.

Serge Aimé started his own dance compagny FASO DANSE THEATRE, in 2002 and created his first solo ‘Minimini’.

In the same year, he joined the celebrated Flemish compagny Les Ballets C de la B where he succesfully performed in‘Wolf’ by Alain Platel and in ‘Tempus Fugit’ by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Both these productions were well received and toured succesfsfully throughout the world untill 2005.

Rachael Swain, founder of the Australian MARRUGEKU invited Serge Aimé in 2004 to research and confront traditional Aboriginal dance forms with contemporary dance. This work lead to the creation of ‘Burning Daylight’ for which he did the choreography, and which played in Suizerland in 2007 at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel Festival.

At the same time, Serge Aimé developed his own projfects for FASO DANSE THÈÂTRE. He created and performed the piece ‘Et demain…  »

which was selected for ‘Lille 2004 – cultural capital of Europe’ and subsequently toured European festivals.

In 2006, he choreographed the piece ‘A benguer’ which was performed in many prestigious European dance festivals.

In 2007, the Liverpool Cultural Compagny invited Serge Aimé to collaborate with the Australian Rachael Swain, with whom he created ‘Sugar’ about urban culture and the place for youth in the city. This choreography , which included dancers and rappers and dealt with the world of hip hop, was at the heart of Liverpool 2008 – European Cultural Capital.

In 2007 he also created a piece which was particularly close to his heart because it deals with the revolutionairy policical figure Thomas Sankara. For this piece,called ‘Quand j’étais révolutionnaire’, he wrote the script, created the choreography and dramaturgy.

In April 2008, Les Subsistances in Lyon commissioned Serge Aimé to create a piece for their festival about language ‘Ça tchatche’. Together with the Indian dancer and choreographer Kalpana Raghuraman he created ‘J’ai perdu mon français / I lost my Enlgish’, a piece that explores the theme of language and how it creates cultural alienation.

In ‘Babemba’, a piece by FASO DANSE THÈÂTRE created in 2008, Serge Aimé takes historical figures from contemporary Africa such as Sankara, Lumumba and Mandela. Using them as examples and sources of inspiration he confronts the youth in Africa about their hopes and engagement.

With his different creations, Serge Aimé Coulibaly has developed an original contemporary language, which is rich and powerful. They are anchored in the African cultures and articulate strong themes where dance is the primary emotion.

 Between 2004-2008, Serge Aimé was artist in residence for National Theater Grand Bleu, Lille France.