Toi, moi, Tituba…
- Dance & performance
60 min.
24.11.2024
Sunday
19:30
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Tituba, the black witch involved in the Salem Trials in the 17th century, is the starting point for Dorothée Munyaneza’s new show, which tackles the issue of memory and legacy. This long-forgotten figure is a symbol of black women’s resistance against oppression, which Maryse Condé brought out of oblivion with her book “Moi, Tituba, sorcière…”, published in 1986. To pay homage to her and to all the voices and bodies that have been erased, silenced and wounded, Dorothée Munyaneza has created a “collective solo”, a danced archive to overcome forgetting and erasure. Based on a text on Tituba by feminist philosophy scholar Elsa Dorlin, the artist moves between light and shadow, blurring the boundaries between present and absent, in a costume and set designed by visual artist Sophie Coudert. She is accompanied by the distant voices of oral archives, a fragile thread of transmission whose power at the heart of our societies is restored by composer Khyam Allami.
Artistic direction and interpretation: Dorothée Munyaneza
Live music: Khyam Allami, Dorothée Munyaneza
Costume: Stéphanie Coudert
Based on a text: by Elsa Dorlin
Lighting: Marine Le Vey
Sound Management: Camille Frachet
Production: Cie Kadidi, Virginie Dupray
Coproduction: Tanz im August – HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin / Chaillot Théâtre National de la Danse / Maison de la Danse Lyon – Pôle Européen de création / DeSingel Antwerp / Pavillon ADC Genève / TransFabrik Fund
Studio residency: CCN – Ballet National de Marseille, Friche Belle de mai Marseille, Centre d’art Montévidéo Marseille, DeSingel Antwerp
Supported by: Fondation Camargo, Cassis / DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur / Montévidéo Art Center – Actoral festival Marseille
Biography
Dorothée Munyaneza is a multidisciplinary artist who uses music, song, text and movement to approach rupture as a dynamic force. Munyaneza draws inspiration from real stories, capturing the body, memory and our times to create a space of resonance.
Her style of creating and performing on stage is directly inspired by what life has given her so intensely. Her artistic research is based on the diversity of her cultural heritage – her extended family in Rwanda, the experience of 14 years in London, the move to Paris followed by settling in Marseille – but above all on her appetite for encounters.
Dorothée Munyaneza has been singing since childhood, training at the Jonas Foundation in London, studying music and social sciences at Canterbury, where she became convinced that music and sound were essential to her work. In 2006, she met François Verret and collaborated with him on Sans Retour, Ice, Cabaret and Do you remember, no I don’t. Since then, other collaborations have included Radouan Mriziga, Alain Mahé, Jean-François Pauvros, Robyn Orlin, Ko Murobushi, Nan Goldin, Stéphanie Coudert, Rachid Ouramdane, Maud Le Pladec, Alain Buffard, Maya Mihindou and Ben LaMar Gay. In 2013, Munyaneza founded Kadidi in Marseille. The company’s repertoire includes Samedi Détente (2014), Unwanted (2017), Mailles (2020) and a capella (2022).
In 2020, Dorothée Munyaneza translates Hopelessly Devoted by Kae Tempest (previously known as Kate Tempest), and Inconditionnelles is published by L’Arche Éditeur, a text she is to stage in late 2024 for Bouffes du Nord in Paris.
Dorothée Munyaneza is an associate artist at the Chaillot Théâtre National de la Danse, the Camargo Foundation, the Maison de la Danse and the Biennale de la danse Lyon – Pôle européen de création.
Supported by
Ministry of Culture, Aerowaves, Creative Europe, Starea Naţiei, Odeon Theatre, Bucharest National Theatre, CINETic (UNATC), LINOTIP – Independent Choreographic Center, Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest, Goethe-Institute Bucharest, Cinema Union, Cărturești, 1000 de Chipuri, 5 to go
Main media partner
Radio Guerilla
Media partners
Adevărul, Agerpress, Elle, Happ.ro, Liternet, TVR Cultural, Radio România Cultural, Revista Arta, The Institute, Zile și nopți, Zeppelin, ISCOADA, Revista Golan, Feeder, Visit Bucharest, Ziarul Metropolis, Scena9, IQads, Ceașca de Cultură, Modernism.ro
