25 — 29.05
Soa Ratsifandrihana Brussels
Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna
dance — premiere
| French, Malagasy, Haitian Creole → NL, FR, EN | ⧖ 1h | €20 / €16
Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna – three Malagasy words that mean comparison, transmission and rivalry. In a score of abstract and figurative gestures, dancer and choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana makes use of her own experience of diaspora and her Madagascan origins to tell us the kind of story she would have liked to have heard or seen as a child. Blending radio, musical and choreographic storytelling, the show plays with orality and movement, reminding us that our bodies, just like our words and sounds, are bearers of stories. Ratsifandrihana – who came to attention as a dancer in Rosas’ new version of Fase – drew inspiration from the words and stories she picked up on a recent trip to Madagascar. Joined by guitarist Joël Rabesolo and performers Audrey Merilus and Stanley Ollivier, she travels towards a form of wandering, exploring how several influences can lead to an unheard-of explosion of cultures like creolisation. Just as the change in accentuation between ‘fampitaha’, ‘fampita’ and ‘fampitàna’ alters the word’s meaning, the dancers glide from one state to another, seemingly following a constantly changing movement – or perhaps a form of creolisation.
25.05
- 18:00
- Last tickets
26.05
- 20:00
- + aftertalk
- Sold out — Register to the ticket alert
27.05
- 20:30
- Last tickets
28.05
- 20:30
- Last tickets
29.05
- 19:30
- Book ticket
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre Varia, Kaaitheater
Artistic direction: Soa Ratsifandrihana | Choreography and performance: Audrey Mérilus, Stanley Ollivier, Soa Ratsifandrihana | Footwork sentence from Raza | Music and performance: Joël Rabesolo | Dramaturgy: Lily Brieu Nguyen | Artistic collaboration: Jérémie Polin Razanaparany aka Raza, Amelia Ewu, Thi Mai Nguyen | Lighting design: Marie-Christine Soma | Costume design: Harilay Rabenjamina | Sound design: Chloé Despax, Guilhem Angot | Support questions on transmission & identity: Prisca Ratovonasy | Texts: Sékou Semega | Videos: Valérianne Poidevin | Technical management: Blaise Cagnac | Light technician: Diane Guérin | Sound technician: Guilhem Angot
Development, production and distribution: ama brussels – Babacar Ba, Clara Schmitt, France Morin | Delegated production: ama brussels, Théâtre Varia in collaboration with Météores | Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater, Théâtre Varia, Charleroi danse, MC93 — Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, ICI – centre chorégraphique national Montpellier Occitanie (direction Christian Rizzo), Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans (direction Maud Le Pladec), Le Gymnase-CDCN Roubaix, La Place de la Danse-CDCN Toulouse • Occitanie, Fonds Yavarhoussen, Tanz im August/HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Fonds Transfabrik, La Coop asbl, Shelter Prod, A-CDCN (Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon, La Manufacture – CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux • La Rochelle, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Chorège CDCN Falaise Normandie, Le Pacifique – CDCN Grenoble • Auvergne • Rhône-Alpes, Touka Danses – CDCN Guyane, Atelier de Paris – CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix • Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN Strasbourg, La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse – Occitanie, La Maison Danse CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, La briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne)
Residencies: ICI – CCN Montpellier Occitanie, La Bellone – Maison du spectacle, Gemeenschapscentrum De Kriekelaar, Université d’Antananarivo, KAAP, Le Gymnase – CDCN Roubaix, Théâtre Varia, CCN d’Orléans, Radio Grenouille | With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la danse, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, taxshelter.be, ING and the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government
Soa Ratsifandrihana is artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater for 2023-2025
Thanks to: Julie Iarisoa, Makwa Joma, Arikaomisa Randria, Naivo, Maria Dogahe, Jonathan, Do sy Bodo | Dedicated to Rado
