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NKAMA + MUE evening

Mélodie Morin | Dimas Tivane

50 mins / For all / Festival

  • Room
  • Outside the Walls

Representation(s)

NKAMA

NKAMA is a juggling, rhythm and dance solo in which Dimas questions time and the different ways in which we perceive and perceive it. He uses juggling as rhythm, and voice to improvise from the trajectory of objects and the sound they produce. The nature of the sound of each object leads it to create music.

Nkama means “time” in Changana, the traditional language spoken in southern Mozambique, where Dimas comes from. Music and dance are part and parcel of everyday life in Mozambique.

Moult

Mue is a burlesque and poetic circus form.

A hoodie attached to the wheel gives birth to a ghostly figure.

The envelope of an empty body comes to life, revealing a figure with an outline-less face, the stuff of metamorphosis. It seems to be in constant mutation, reinventing itself and deforming itself.

A soul in search of its carnal envelope takes shape.

She wanders the stage, floats, then disappears…

We hear a distant echo, and then a memory emerges, a suspended image, out of time.

Dimas Tivane

Dimas Tivane attended the Centre Culturel Franco-Mozambicain in Maputo, where he began juggling in 2011. He became a juggler-performer in three shows directed by Cie TG: Maputo-Mozambique in 2013 with over 200 performances: Avignon Off, Musée du Quai Branly, Bouffes du nord… but also in Petite Rêverie in 2019 and Rêverie in 2020. He has collaborated with Leïla Martial in a trio of improvised music and juggling. Dimas is currently performing with the English company GANDINI JUGGLING(Smashed ) and collaborating with Cie DEFRACTO on two projects.

Mélodie Morin

Mélodie Morin joins the Ecole Nationale de Cirque de Châtellerault in 2011.

She continued her studies at the Académie Fratellini in Saint-Denis for four years. There, she learned to use the Cyr wheel both as a juggling object and as an animal. During her training, she attended workshops led by artists Jeanne Mordoj, Camille and Raphaëlle Boitel, Johann Le Guillerm, Fragan Gehlker, Julie Mondor and Lionel Parlier. Curious about mixing the arts, she participates in the creation of shows that combine circus and various artistic disciplines, such as dance, theater, music, storytelling and puppetry. She is directed by Olivier Letellier, Isabelle Lafond, Anna Rodriguez, Julia Christ and Jani Nuutinen. Following these artistic encounters and collective creations, Mélodie created her first solo Mue in 2020, directed by Satchie Noro and produced by the Coopérative De rue et De cirque. In 2021, she performs in the piece Belles Places, choreographed by Léo Léruss, as well as in HKC’s one-woman show La pointe du compas, to be released in January 2023.

[Distribution]

  • Author, composer, performer :
  • Dimas Tivane (NKAMA)
  • technical manager :
  • Mélodie Morin (NKAMA)
  • Artistic collaborator :
  • Emilie Saccoccio (NKAMA)
  • Choreographic support :
  • Satchie Noro (NKAMA)
  • External perspective :
  • Guillaume Martinet (NKAMA)
  • Satchie Noro (Mue)
  • Outside views juggling :
  • Tom Neyret (NKAMA)
  • Anthony Salgueiro (NKAMA)
  • Delegated production :
  • Les Noctambules (NKAMA)
  • By and with :
  • Mélodie Morin (Mue)
  • Musical composition :
  • Julie Mondor (Mue)
  • Enregistrements voix :
  • Eve Manson (Mue)
  • Conseils à la manipulation marionnettique :
  • Christiane Lay (Mue)
  • Conception accroches costume :
  • Marine Hunot/Ann Williams (Mue)

[Production]

NKAMA

La Maison des Jonglages (93), Metis’Gwa (Guadeloupe), Cie Defracto (92), Coopérative de Rue de Cirque (75), Corpsaccord (76)

Moult

Produced by La Coopérative De Rue et De Cirque, with support from L’Académie Fratellini – center des arts et de formation aux arts du cirque, Latitude Cirque-Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Ville de Briançonnet, Les Noctambules – Les Arènes de Nanterre, La Briqueterie – center de développement chorégraphique du ValdeMarne, Pas Trop Loing de la Seine – Festival Au Bon Coin and Animakt – lieu de fabrique pour les arts de la rue, de la piste et d’ailleurs.