Open Studio: Inés Sybille Vooduness at Espaço Alkantara

In Cadences créoles, dix mille fois dédoublées, Malvin Puerca de Goma and Inés Sybille Vooduness engage in a dialogue with the Mystery of the Marassa twins from the moving iconography of voodoo. The visual, aesthetic, philosophical, spiritual, and choreographic contaminations of this divinity uphold this performance or speculation on a pilgrimage. The choreographic field of this work — Angola’s Kuduro, Jamaica’s Dancehall, the Dominican Gagá, Guloya, Bamboula and Dembow, and Haiti’s Yanvalou — support the reterritorialization of the high syncretic site of the Saut d’Eau waterfall in Haiti. This forgeron-geography, always in relation and always in motion, inspires delirium, altered states of consciousness, and the ‘mulatto’ and invisible line of flight of Malvin and Inés.

After her residencies at Espacio Fondo (Barcelona) and Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre (Brussels), Inés returns to Lisbon for two more creation periods. From 14 to 17 August, she will be at AND Lab – Centre for Research, and from 18 to 26 August, we welcome the artist to Espaço Alkantara, where there will be an open studio event on 25 August at 7pm. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Inés Sybille Vooduness was one of the selected artists for CommonLAB 2024. Cadences créoles, dix mille fois dédoublées is one of the three Alkantara production projects for the year of 2025.

Credits

Creation, direction and performance InésSybille 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)