Performance(s) (Dates to be announced)
MAAOA

Artist and choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza moves across the traces and spaces of the colonial past and postcolonial present related to restitution, objecthood and aspects of memory and the body in a performative tour through the ethnographic collections of the musée d’arts africains, océaniens et amérindiens (MAAOA).

→ The performance will be made available as an audio walk for visitors of the collections during the duration of Manifesta 13 Marseille after the performance via QR Code online. Please take out your phone and Headphones. If you want to attend the live performances please make sure to register in advance. Dates will be announced shortly on www.manifesta13.org.

Dorothée Munyaneza was born in Rwanda and lives now in Marseille. She is a singer, writer and choreographer that has developed a highly impassioned body of work that takes reality as its starting point and captures aspects of memory and the body, both from an individual and collective standpoint. She gives a voice to those who are silenced; by making their silence heard, she lays bare the scars of History.

Munyaneza worked on the soundtrack for the movie Hotel Rwanda (2004). As a singer, she released her first solo album in 2010, which was produced by Martin Russell. In 2012, she collaborated with British composer James Seymour Brett to produce the album Earth Songs. She has worked on the international dance scene with Nan Goldin, Mark Tompkins, Robyn Orlin, Rachid Ouramdane, Maud Le Pladec and Alain Buffard. In 2013 Munyaneza founded her own company, Kadidi, and produced the work Samedi Détente (Saturday relaxation) which debuted in November 2014 at the Théâtre de Nîmes. The show toured extensively, with some 100 performances in France and abroad. Unwanted, her second show, has been performed for the first time in the summer of 2017 at the 2017 Festival d’Avignon  and also at the Festival d’automne à Paris.