Repenser le monde : un devoir de mémoire
"Education is the most powerful weapon for changing the world.” Nelson Mandela
To celebrate the contribution and richness of the heritage of the world's black communities, constantly updated in the face of today's upheavals, choreographer and documentalist Rhodnie Désir invites you on a geographical, anthropological, historical and artistic journey to the heart of the history of the Afrodescendants of the Americas.
Since 2015, Rhodnie Désir has been excavating the Americas in search of Afrodescendant cultures. She works to retrace their memory, inspired by her ancestors. Driven by the need and the will to transcend her origins, she conceived the pioneering and international project BOW'T TRAIL which took her to Martinique, Haiti, Brazil, Mexico, Halifax and New Orleans.
BOW'T TRAIL also resulted in the birth of:
- a five episodes web series on TOU.TV;
- a webdocumentary of 75 videos classified in 7 themes on ARTV / RADIO-CANADA;
- nine choreographic productions, from BOW'T (2013) to BOW'T TRAIL Retrospek (2020) and BOW'T TRAIL Tio'tia:ke / Montreal (2021);
- and numerous workshops and conferences.
Rhodnie Désir's choreographic and documentary project links art, knowledge and history to shed a realistic and positive light on the intangible heritage of Black communities through dance, supported by more than 120 vibrant testimonies from historians, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists and musicians (in 5 languages).
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