Dorothée Munyaneza / cie Kadidi
Reflecting the Times
workshop
September 6 | 10:30 am — 1:00 pm
Teatro India
The workshop is aimed at non-professionals who are familiar with the movement and, in particular, people with a diasporic background.
Reflecting The Times is a workshop curated by choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza that brings a temporary community together through dance and instant composition, aiming for the participants to be able to express their inner lives.
We are custodians of memory. Faces, bodies, and voices bear witness to the times. During this period together, ways will be explored to move a body through space in unexpected ways, always paying attention to the surroundings, to the joy that can still be clung to.
Nina Simone once said: “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times. I choose to reflect the times and situations in which I find myself…”. In her research, Dorothée Munyaneza seeks to explore the stories our bodies tell as we simultaneously exist and move.
Dorothée Munyaneza will also be present at Short Theatre 2024 with the performance a capella.
The Short Theatre 2024 workshops are free of charge. To participate, you are required to register by sending an e-mail to shorttheatrefestival@gmail.com, indicating in the subject line the title of the workshop and in the body your name, surname, telephone number and a short introduction. Reservations will be accepted subject to availability.
Deadline for registration: 28 August
Dorothée Munyaneza is a multidisciplinary artist; she uses music, songs, text and movement to explore the concept of breakage as a dynamic force. Munyaneza draws inspiration from true stories and gathers the body, memory and time to create a space for resonance. Born in Rwanda, in 1994 she moved to England with her family; she studied at the Jonas Foundation in London, then she graduated in Music and Sociology in Canterbury and eventually moved to France. She has worked with François Verret, 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 she founded the group Kadidi in Marseille. She translated in French Hopelessly Devoted by Kae Tempest that she has been invited to stage at the Bouffes du Nord in Paris next November. She is currently an associated artist at the Théâtre National de Chaillot, la Maison de la Danse and Lyons’ Dance Biennale, and a resident artist at Fondation Camargo.
ph. Pat Cividanes
