VIDEO. What is Booty Therapy?

Brut met Maïmouna Coulibaly. She is a choreographer and the originator of Booty Therapy. It’s a twerk that aims to bring the female body back to the fore in public space. “It’s a real philosophy, it’s not just the physical movements that we can do“, she explains. For Maïmouna, the fact of dancing is a way of exorcising the traumas that she has experienced one by one and of awakening them one by one.”If we keep all these traumas and do not treat them, we become heavier and we stifle our natural power which is at the level of the pelvis. We need to free them, to free them so that this power continues to exist and so that we are there“, says Maïmouna.

Booty Therapy is inspired by traditional African dances. “I would like to be able to talk about Mapouka. It is a dance that comes from the Ivory Coast, at the base, it is a traditional dance of trance“, explains the choreographer. This dance, which is the twerk, the fact of moving your buttocks, made it possible to”celebrate and pray the fertility goddess“. Maïmouna explains that there is a political approach in Booty Therapy, especially when it does flash mobs, that is to say a gathering in a public place.”We have this need to go to the streets and show ourselves and let go, and to show, also to inspire other women and to show them how much they can be … free.“, she concludes.