BOW'T TIO'TIA:KE : 9th version | Montreal
Choregraphic-documentary work | presented to the 2021 TransAmeriques Festival in Montréal
The recent phase of the great adventure BOW’T TRAIL. In a Montreal location charged with memory, Rhodnie Désir explores the heritage of Afrodescendant peoples in a powerful hymn to resistance.
After travelling across America, choreographer and documentary filmmaker Rhodnie Désir lands in her native Montreal to unveil the results of a stunning quest: BOW’T-Tio’Tia:Ke. A poignant territorial excavation made up of striking encounters, absorbed by her body and reinterpreted as an arresting dance of life.
The Haitian-Canadian artist presents her triptych, created with a sense of urgency, in the thick of the Black Lives Matter movement. Désir fervently reclaims the outdoor spaces laden with colonial memory, reckoning with our city’s slave-trading past and converting this ignominy into life-affirming, cathartic gestures. Surrounded by musicians, the choreographer explores African-American legacies and opens an essential dialogue with First Nations peoples. Ancestral rhythms, liberating chants, incantatory movements… a ceremony takes place, which is an ode to resistance. A fundamental duty of remembrance.
BOW’T - Tio’tia:ke
Mondial Premier
Co-produced : FTA - festival TransAmériques et de RD Créations
Creation partners: Conseil des arts et les dettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Place des arts
A work of RHODNIE DÉSIR / RD CRÉATIONS
Choregrapher, dancer, artistic director et vocal compositions
Rhodnie Désir
Music composed and performed by
Cécile Doo-Kingué + Moe Clark + Engone Endong + Jahsun
Musical score in 'Protest'
Tout ce qu’il faut - paroles : Jenny Salgado alias J.Kyll - musique : Jenny Salgado et André Courcy
Production manager and technical director
Samuel Theriault
Creation support
Isabelle Poirier
Artistic advisor
Paul Chambers
Costumes/stylist
Gérardine Jeune
Video
Alejandro de Leon
Video editing
Clark Ferguson
Photographer
Kevin Calixte
Diffusion by Cusson Management
Valérie Cusson
Public relations
Sheila Skaiem