Dorcy Rugamba

Dorcy Rugamba is a Rwandan author, actor, dancer and stage director. First prize in dramatic art from the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liège, he was first introduced to the performing arts by his father Cyprien Rugamba, writer, choreographer, composer and museum curator. Based between Brussels and Kigali, he co-authored Rwanda 94, presented in 1999 at the Festival d'Avignon. In 2005, he directed L'Instruction, a play by Peter Weiss on the trial of the Auschwitz perpetrators. Dorcy Rugamba is also the author of the play Bloody Niggers, the choreographic show Planet Kigali and the opera Umurinzi, which he created for the official ceremony of the 25th commemoration of the Tutsi genocide. In March 2020, he creates Les restes suprêmes, a show on the African heritage of European museums, the plastic and performative version of which he will deliver for the Dakar Biennale in 2022. In October 2020, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, he begins a collaboration with Abderrahmane Sissako to stage the opera Le vol du Boli, with music by Damon Albarn. In February 2024, he signs the artistic direction of the first edition of the Kigali Art Triennale. In March of the same year, his memoir of his family, HEWA RWANDA, une lettre aux absents, was published by Éditions J.C.Lattès.