The 11/04/2026
Histoire(s) décoloniale(s) - Pathways
Dance
From age 12 - 30 to 40 min per episode
Proposed by CLAP (Cogiteurs locaux amateurs de programmation)
How is history transmitted? How do bodies, through dance, manage to tell stories that make history?
With this choreographic series, Betty Tchomanga continues her work on the narratives and stories that link the West and Africa. Each episode looks at colonial history and its legacy through the prism of a singular story, a body, an experience. Asking where we're looking from, where we're telling the story, from what point of view. From France to Benin, via Algeria to Ethiopia, this journey through time and space takes place through the stories, bodies, voices and singular histories of Emma, Folly and Dalila.
EMMA
Histoire(s) Décoloniale(s) #Emma focuses on early modernity and the period of the transatlantic slave trade (1492-1849). The choreographic material developed in this solo revolves around a work on the grotesque, close to pantomime, revealing the figure of a mad master. Thanks to rhythmic work and the expressiveness of the body and face, this solo holds up a distorting mirror to the story of a colonial and slave-owning past, and questions the power relations that stem from it. Spectators are invited to step back into the story with a frenzied energy, moving from laughter to tears...
FOLLY
Histoire(s) Décoloniale(s) #Folly is based on the oral tradition of stories told in the form of parables. The choreography of this portrait is based on traditional rhythms and dances from Benin, Togo and Ghana. With only her voice and the stamping of her feet as instruments, Folly brings to life the dances that inhabit her.
DALILA
From the child to the grandmother, from the raï singer Cheikha Rimitti to the Hottentot Venus and Iranian revolutionary women, this solo uses body and voice to conjure up figures of women "out of frame". Body and face are veiled and revealed, revealing a parade of masks. In a kind of puppet theater consisting of a table, a chair, a lamp and a video-projector, Histoire(s) Décoloniale(s) #Dalila oscillates between interrogation, intimate confession and life story.
Information and reservations by phone and online.
From age 12 - 30 to 40 min per episode
Proposed by CLAP (Cogiteurs locaux amateurs de programmation)
How is history transmitted? How do bodies, through dance, manage to tell stories that make history?
With this choreographic series, Betty Tchomanga continues her work on the narratives and stories that link the West and Africa. Each episode looks at colonial history and its legacy through the prism of a singular story, a body, an experience. Asking where we're looking from, where we're telling the story, from what point of view. From France to Benin, via Algeria to Ethiopia, this journey through time and space takes place through the stories, bodies, voices and singular histories of Emma, Folly and Dalila.
EMMA
Histoire(s) Décoloniale(s) #Emma focuses on early modernity and the period of the transatlantic slave trade (1492-1849). The choreographic material developed in this solo revolves around a work on the grotesque, close to pantomime, revealing the figure of a mad master. Thanks to rhythmic work and the expressiveness of the body and face, this solo holds up a distorting mirror to the story of a colonial and slave-owning past, and questions the power relations that stem from it. Spectators are invited to step back into the story with a frenzied energy, moving from laughter to tears...
FOLLY
Histoire(s) Décoloniale(s) #Folly is based on the oral tradition of stories told in the form of parables. The choreography of this portrait is based on traditional rhythms and dances from Benin, Togo and Ghana. With only her voice and the stamping of her feet as instruments, Folly brings to life the dances that inhabit her.
DALILA
From the child to the grandmother, from the raï singer Cheikha Rimitti to the Hottentot Venus and Iranian revolutionary women, this solo uses body and voice to conjure up figures of women "out of frame". Body and face are veiled and revealed, revealing a parade of masks. In a kind of puppet theater consisting of a table, a chair, a lamp and a video-projector, Histoire(s) Décoloniale(s) #Dalila oscillates between interrogation, intimate confession and life story.
Information and reservations by phone and online.
Opening times
On 11/04/2026
from 19:00
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Lycée Benjamin Franklin 1 Rue de la Forêt
56400 Auray
56400 Auray
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