Dorothée Munyaneza / Compagnie Kadidi Umuko

Season 23 24
Show
« Umuko » is a red-flowered tree, a keeper of stories and a healer. With five young Rwandese artists, dancers, a poet and musicians, Dorothée Munyaneza celebrates the creativity, audacity and freedom of a new generation that carries forward the memory of the past while dreaming about the future. See program

location

time

1h

category

  • Associate Artist
Dates
  • 19h30
    Full price
    24 €
    Under 30
    11 €
    Job seeker
    12 €
    Social minima
    8 €
Session translated into French sign language
Screening with audio description
Meet the artists after the show.
School session
Session with adapted subtitle

Dorothée Munyaneza brings on stage five young artists from Rwanda, these “old ancients” to use the words of Kae tempest, the women and men who are dreaming about the Rwanda of tomorrow but haven’t forgotten. With them, she conjures Umuko, this bright red-flowered tree that illuminated her childhood. Gathered around Umuko – the healing tree, the ancestral tree, the keeper of stories – everyone works to build connections between what has been preserved and what is standing up against collapse and what is coming.  

Pursuing love, solidarity and joy, the piece superbly combines dance, poetry, music and song to intimately connect generations through “this vulnerable, powerful, rebellious and resplendent youth that mirrors the vermillion Umuko flowers.”