Dorothée Munyaneza
Mailles Carte blanche – Résonances
© Leslie Artamon ©
© Leslie Artamon ©
© Leslie Artamon ©
© Leslie Artamon ©
© Leslie Artamon ©
Concept, Dorothée Munyaneza
With Ife Day, Yinka Esi Graves, Asmaa Jama, Elsa Mulder, Nido Uwera, Dorothée Munyaneza
Artistic collaboration, Stéphanie Coudert
Music and sound design, Alain Mahé, Ben Lamar Gay, and Dorothée Munyaneza
Lighting, Christian Dubet
With thanks to Helngiwe Lushaba, Madlala Zora Santos, Keyierra Collins
Production and development director, Emmanuel Magis (Anahi)
Production and development assistant, Margot Delorme
Produced by Kadidi / Mascaret Production
Coproduced by Charleroi danse – Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie (Bruxelles) ; Châteauvallon – Scène Nationale ; Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ; Le Grand T – Théâtre de Loire-Atlantique ; CCN Ballet National de Marseille ; NEXT festival / La Rose des vents, scène nationale Lille Métropole Villeneuve d’Asq ; Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes) ; Théâtre de Nîmes – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – Art et Création – Danse Contemporaine ; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with Les Spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou, Paris ; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Ministère de la Culture, du Fonds de dotation du Quartz - Scène nationale de Brest, de La Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignon – Centre national des écritures contemporaines, de la SPEDIDAM et du Département des Bouches du Rhône.
With support from Adami
Dorothée Munyaneza is an Associate Artist at Théâtre de la Ville-Paris.
Event organized within the framework of the Africa 2020 Season with the support from the Comité des mécènes : Fondation Gilbert et Rose-Marie Chagoury, Orange, Total Foundation, Axian, Groupe Sipromad, JCDecaux, Pernod Ricard, Sanofi, Société Générale, VINCI, CFAO, ENGIE, Thales, Thomson Broadcast et Veolia
In partnership with France Culture
This year sees the Festival d’Automne giving a carte blanche to the choreographer, singer and author Dorothée Munyaneza. In her piece entitled Mailles, a choral work for African or Afro-descendant female artists, each body and voice brings to the stage it its own life story, commitment and might. A performative concert will also be accompanying the show.
Maille is a women’s show. Whether they be artists or intellectuals, they hail from the four corners of the earth and are black, African or Afro-descendant. And committed. Dorothée Munyaneza’s various encounters with them go back in time and their ongoing dialogues have been a rich source of intimate details, shared readings and sensations. She unites them onstage in order for their different paths to be heard, as well as the violence of their life stories and History itself. In doing so, she enables audiences to share in the combat that these women have been waging in spaces where they often face rejection. Thus, the piece is a celebration of female might, a driving force in art as much as in life. Their memories peopled with elements of the past converse with present-day accounts to angry effect, the stitches of a single piece of material. In this symphony for seven voices, Dorothée Munyaneza seeks to weave the fabric of these stories in collaboration with the designer and visual artist Stéphanie Coudert. The costume and the material itself thus become the through-line for what happens onstage, thereby raising questions about the feminine and bodily freedom.
For the purpose of this carte blanche proposed by the Festival, Dorothée Munyaneza will also be bringing audiences a performative concert of shared music and poetry in the company of artists she admires.
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