Braids & Heritage premieres worldwide at FTA
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CAPAS and Parbleux join forces for a second collaboration in support of emerging voices and plural choreographic practices.
Braids & Heritage, the first collective creation by Jossua Satinée and Stacey Désilier, will premiere worldwide at the Festival TransAmériques (FTA) from June 2 to 6, 2026. Co-produced by the FTA, the work is supported in its dissemination by CAPAS, as part of a renewed partnership with Parbleux.
Following an initial collaboration in 2025 around Un-nevering by Thea Patterson, the two organizations are strengthening an alliance grounded in the complementarity of their expertise and a shared commitment to bold, embodied, and essential choreographic practices. They continue this work by supporting artistic processes, combining delegated production and touring development in service of artists and works that reaffirm the place of choreography as a resolutely contemporary discipline.
With this piece, Satinée and Désilier unfold a powerful choreographic language at the crossroads of diasporic heritages, urban cultures, and intimate narratives. Braids & Heritage is conceived as a For Us and By Us space, where bodies become sites of memory and transmission, and where the intimate intertwines with the collective. The work does not tell a story—it probes layers. It braids. It weaves. It connects the present to the presences that inhabit it. From cakewalk to moonwalk, from twerk to hip-hop, from catwalk to square set, dances born of Afro-descendant resistance activate virtuosic bodies where ancestral know-how and contemporary trances meet and transform. Rooted in a practice that is both political and sensitive, their approach foregrounds relationships, memory, and chosen communities. The stage becomes a workshop, a sanctuary, a site of friction, as well as of homage and communion.
Braids & Heritage asserts a distinctive choreographic signature, carried by two artists whose complicity and virtuosity are striking. A luminous work, where precision of gesture meets deeply embodied intensity.
World Premiere — FTA (Montreal)
June 2–6, 2026 Monument-National — Studio Hydro-Québec
Contact : Charlotte Beaussier - Booking charlotte@capas.ca
