Toi, moi, Tituba

Maryse Condé wrote Tituba a fictional childhood, adolescence and death in her award-winning book I, Tituba, whereupon philosopher Elsa Dorlin wrote an essay on Tituba in Moi, toi, nous ... Tituba of de ontologie van het spoor.

When Dorothée Munyaneza was introduced to Elsa and her work, there was little hesitance: she knew she wanted to create something around the figure of Tituba. In this new solo, a dialogue with musician Khyam Allami, Dorothée Munyaneza tries to breathe new life into the lives and dreams of Tituba. The men and women whose identities and existences were denied and squashed by slave trade and colonial regimes. Through words. Through the body. Through the space the voice takes up, and through song.

Dorothée visualises a physical archive capable of gathering memories and honouring them. A living, sensitive, physical and bodily archive, where experiences are gathered. A solo conceived as a cross-pollination, a hybrid space. African, but also American, European, Caribbean, ... A space full of traces, dreams, and violence.