Based in Marseille, Dorothée Munyaneza is a multi-disciplinary artist using music, song, text and movement to deal with rupture as a dynamic force. Munyaneza draws from real stories seizing body, memory and our times to create a space of resonance. Her style of creating and performing on stage is directly inspired by what life has so intensely given her. Her artistic research draws from the diversity of her cultural heritage – her extended family in Rwanda, the experience of the 14 years spent in London, her move to Paris followed by her settling in Marseille -, but more so by her appetite for encounters. Dorothée Munyaneza sings since her childhood, trains at the Jonas Foundation in London, studies music and social sciences in Canterbury, where she becomes certain that music and sound are pivotal in her work.

In 2006, she meets François Verret, they collaborate on Sans Retour, Ice, Cabaret, and Do you remember, no I don’t. Since then, other collaborations have included Radouan Mriziga, Alain Mahé, Jean-François Pauvros, Robyn Orlin, Ko Murobushi, Nan Goldin, Stéphanie Coudert, Rachid Ouramdane, Maud Le Pladec, Alain Buffard, Maya Mihindou and Ben Lamar Gay. In 2013, Munyaneza founds in Marseille the Kadidi company. The company’s repertoire includes Samedi Détente (2014), Unwanted (2017) Mailles (2020), a capella (2022) and Toi, moi, Tituba... (2023), a duet with music composer Khyam Allami. In 2020 Dorothée Munyaneza translates Hopelessly Devoted by Kae Tempest, Inconditionnelles is published by L’Arche Éditeur. In 2021, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris invites Dorothée Munyaneza to stage the text that premiered in Fall 2024.

Dorothée Munyaneza is associate artist to Chaillot Théâtre National de la danse Paris, Maison de la danse de Lyon, Biennale de la danse de Lyon and Fondation Camargo in Cassis.