Cadences créoles, dix mille fois dédoublées by Inés Sybille Vooduness
Produced by 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.
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. The premiere is scheduled for November 2025 — more news coming soon!
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)
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...