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AYEWA

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AYEwa is an onomatopoeia pronounced by the migrant being who seeks to find his inner strength within the benchmarks of routine belonging to his past.

Year of research and creation: 2013
World premiere: 2013, Festival Quartiers Danse (Montreal, Canada)

AYEwa is also a thanks from the spiritual guides who accompany him throughout this repetitive whirlwind. Through contemporary dance and singing, Rhodnie Désir focuses on the gestures and emotions that arise from the perpetual and circular movement that pushes her to a quest for references. Her voice seems, at certain moments, to give birth to herself with force, like an impulsive but reasoned language.

FIRST SCREENING at the Hydro-Québec Studio of the Monument-National as part of the Hybridité and Émergence evenings of the 2013 Quartier Danse Festival (Montréal).

Credits

Choreography, interpretation : Rhodnie Désir

Music : Rhodnie Désir (voice, composition and arrangements), Excerpts from the album Pygmies in The Congo (2009), JFL’s Psycho House (Jean-François-Lemieux)

Artistic advisor : Zab Maboungou

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