Inés Sybille Vooduness in residency in Barcelona
Cadences créoles, dix mille fois dédoublées
- 08.04 — 20.04 2025
Cadences créoles, dix mille fois dédoublées is a performance created by Inés Sybille Vooduness and Malvin Montero. Drawing from Angola's Kuduro, Dominican Gagá and Dembow, and the voodoo rhythm Yanvalou, the performers transport their corporealities to a fantastical and syncretic place. Through technologies and memories rooted in the Afro-diasporic space, these two dancers request their bodies to multiply and modify states of consciousness. The codes and technologies of this flow of Blackness underpin this speculation, which tempts to journey towards the Saut d'Eau waterfall, a sacred syncretic site in Haiti.
From 8 to 20 april, Inés Sybille Vooduness will be in residency at Espacio Fondo (Barcelona) with Malvin Montero for research and material production process around the urgencies of the piece. On 17 april at 7pm there will be a rehearsal open to the public.
Inés Sybille Vooduness was one of the selected artists for CommonLAB 2024. Cadences créoles, dix mille fois dédoublées is now one of the three Alkantara production projects for the year of 2025.
Credits
Creation, direction and performance Inés Sybille Vooduness Performance and co-creation Malvin Montero Lighting design matéria leve (Creation and technical direction Bee Barros, Gabriela Claveria Accompaniment and mentoring Leticia Skrycky) Poduction Alkantara Co-production Alkantara, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles and MC93, in the context of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme funded by the European Union Creation Grant O Espaço do Tempo, with the support of BPI and the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation Residencies Support Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre (Brussels)
Inés Sybille Vooduness is a dancer, cultural researcher, and teacher. Born in Barcelona to a Catalan mother and a Haitian father, she currently resides in Lisbon. Inés Sybille creates fictional encounters with Haitian Vodou deities through her choreographic field: Kuduro from Angola, Coupé Décalé from Côte d’Ivoire, and Dancehall from Jamaica. She shapes this philosophical material and explores the possibility of producing an existential awareness by reterritorializing these codes. In 2023, Inés was selected as an artist-in-residence at La Casa Encendida with...
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Los Mina). Malvin Montero began his dance career in 2003 at the Alina Abreu Dance Conservatory. He graduated from the National School of Dance of Fine Arts (Endanza) and Pro Danza (Havana). He holds a degree in choreography and dance performance from Rey Juan Carlos University (ISDAl) in Madrid, Spain. He performed in Cecilia Valdés at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, being part of the first Black ballet in that theater. He also worked as a dancer in the opera Un Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain. He...
