A powerful journey through Afro-descendant dances and rhythms of the Americas.
With powerful energy, the choreographer-performer embodies the flow of 140 testimonies collected from seven lands in the Americas, from Black communities specialists. She draws inspiration from the history of those who, coming or deported from Africa. Deploying an unparalleled polyrhythmic language, Désir transposes these testimonies into gestures. Carried by two live maestros and enveloped in video images of those protagonists from Martinique, Brazil, Canada, New Orleans, Mexico and Haiti - where she is from -, with and for whom she conceived this opus, the performance of the remarkable dancer Rhodnie Désir releases emotion as a bonding lightning bolt. The show is an archaeological, anthropological and artistic excavation, both lunar dark and brightly solar.
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Choreography, interpretation, artistic direction and vocal compositions Rhodnie Désir Musicians Engone Endong & Jahsun Video design Manuel Chantre Lighting design Juliette Dumaine Lighting design Jonathan Barro Costume design Mélanie Ferrero Beatmaker, sound composer Engone Endong Senior artistic consultation Philip Szporer Creative accompanist sabelle Poirier