Gegenüber Festival
Transatlantic Reverberation – Memory in Movement
Free admission
Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, Espace Jean-Pierre Perreault, Studio Peter-Boneham
2022
Transatlantic Reverberation – Memory in Movement
(working title)
The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Philip Szporer, author, director and dance critic.
Through a collaboration of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Goethe-Institut Montreal and fabrik Potsdam – Internationales Zentrum für Tanz und Bewegungskunst, artists Khadidiatou Bangoura and Luana Madikera have received a residency in the studios of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique. This residency allows them to develop further their artistic relationship and explore new avenues of creative collaboration. In counterpart, Québec artists Rozenn Lecomte and Léa Noblet Di Ziranaldi are welcomed at the fabrik Potsdam – Internationales Zentrum für Tanz und Bewegungskunst.
In their project, Khadidiatou Bangoura and Luana Madikera research how the engagement with and reflection on traditional African dances for contemporary dance settings can serve as a decolonial tool in artistic practices and creative processes. Their collaboration started in 2023 as part of a research project entitled DIEKPO, in which they explored the ritual “dipo” from Kroboland in Ghana, which is a puberty rite for young female members of communities that has a specific dance as one of its elements. During the process, they continuously questioned their ability, desire and intention to authentically “reproduce” the ritual. As both of them are not from Kroboland, they felt it to be unfitted to aim to reproduce an experience outside of their cultural heritage and chose instead to engage artistically with aspects of the ritual they could relate to and felt strongly about from a pan-African perspective. Their curiosity and interest for the adaptation of ritualistic dances for contemporary dance performances was born.
Through this project, they hope to spark reflections and discussions around forms of cultural preservation, the duty of remembrance and the plurality of being(s). What are the effects and implications of presenting work around afrodiasporic traditional practices in contemporary dance performance? By combining their respective competencies, they aim to create mindful work that brings together preservation, abstraction and adaptation.
Parte del festival “Longing / Belonging”
Las historias de migración caracterizan a nuestras sociedades modernas, en las que personas de distintos orígenes culturales buscan pertenecer. Por un lado se celebra la diversidad cultural, pero al mismo tiempo surgen nuevas fronteras sociales. El festival «Longing/Belonging» del Goethe-Institut presenta contribuciones artísticas y discursos sociales de Alemania y Norteamérica.
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Khadidiatou Bangoura
Khadidiatou Bangoura is originally from Liberia and Guinea. She was born in France and grew up in Germany. After a BA in International Relations & Development Studies and an MA in African Studies in London, she graduated in contemporary dance at Danceworks Berlin in October 2017. In January 2023, she started collaborating with Kuyum Kollaborativ in Berlin, a research project centered around contemporary neo-African dance. In February 2023, she was invited by Melissa Guex to perform in an improvised performance called Soul Dance at Festival Rolande Leonard in Lausanne, Switzerland. Since March 2023, she has been researching and developing the creation of an inclusive dance class for blind, visually-impaired and sighted participants. This research has led to the exploration of the development of a dance performance for blind and visually-impaired audiences without audio description, which was presented as a work in progress in August 2023 under the title How does it feel?. In September 2023, she was part of two performances at Kuyum Arts Festival in Berlin: Kuyum Kollaborativ – the result of a group residency investigating neo-African dance and DIEKPO – a duett exploring and deconstructing the Ghanaian ritual of the same name and adapting it to the stage.
Her own choreographic works include The heart is a muscle (November 2026), Adult-ish (July 2017), Hey Stranger (November 2017), fight, flight, freeze (June 2020), Moving Structures (2021/2022) and Feel the World Through My Skin – Observations on everyday racism (September 2021, October/November 2022, March 2023). Through dance, she analyzes our relationships to each other, to ourselves and to our environment, thereby discovering and creating new narratives that lead to (self-)reflection. In doing so, she is particularly interested in perceptions and ways of perceiving. Since 2022, this artistic focus has increasingly been pursued through spontaneous improvisation as well as the movement methods Flying Low and Passing Through.
Luana Madikera
Luana Madikera is a versatile mutidisciplinary dancer, poet and performer. With a deep passion for exploring different dance forms, Luana merges modern, urban, and traditional African and Afro-Caribbean dances, including but not limited to azonto, ndombolo, amapiano, sabar and gwoka as well as improvisation and contemporary dance. Through Luana’s research and performances, she delves into significant themes such as resilience, black identity, resistance, intergenerational trauma, and decoloniality. Luana has worked for different choreographers such as: Magda Korsinsky (Patterns), Alexis Blake (Crack Nerves Boogie Swerve), Felix Dompreh (Diekpo).
Along with her work as a dancer, she has developped her own dance piece for children titled Wurzula which addresses the topics of roots and identity. She has also a collective FemBlack performance collective, with which she has created the afrofuturistic piece Another space/memory. As a member of the tropical bass band La By‘le, Luana Madikera regularly performs as a rapper, singer and dancer. In addition, Luana Madikera is a dedicated dance teacher and educator. She generously shares her expertise and passion for dance by conducting regular classes and workshops tailored for both adults and children. Through her teaching, Luana imparts not only technical skills but also a deep understanding of the cultural and historical context of the dance forms she specializes in.
Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique - studio Peter Boneham, Montréal
2022 Sherbrooke St. EastH2K 1B9 Montreal
Detalles
Entry: Free admission
Performance + Discussion
+1 514-499-0159
caroline.gagnon@goethe.de