"An ancestral African ritual that takes the form of discussion, storytelling or testimony. A palaver is a space for words dedicated and addressed to a community, a village or an assembly. To celebrate, to tell, to mourn, to act responsibly in the name of the I and/or the We". Bintou Dembélé

Bintou Dembélé is committed to highlighting minority cultures. In the form of palabres, she intends to create a time for collective discussion with artists from different disciplines to reflect on what constitutes "the new currents of popular culture from the peripheries." Le/s Palabre/s are the "side steps" that accompany all the shows she presents in France and abroad.

Bintou invites these artists, philosophers, choreographers, musicians and dancers to these performances to question us, to make us hear and see those we don't hear, to make us realize that we are human.

For Bintou, the show isn't everything; it exists in her work and her tribe, the time of long work, which authorizes a renewal of movement, language and music by breaking out of the shackles and boxes. The aim is to organize a dialogue between artists and actors from minority communities, and a public interested in their words. Thanks to these PALABRE/S, institutions open their doors to other populations, other people, other faces.