Dorothée Munyaneza & Guests
Shikama
- 14.11 — 16.11 2026
- Performances
- world premiere
- CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
- 10€
- ages 6+
- 1 H
Three people, a cello and three syllables seek to take root amid the world’s turbulence and life’s upheavals.
Shikama comes from Gushikama, which means “to take root” in Kinyarwanda, Dorothée Munyaneza’s native language.
Dorothée Munyaneza is a multidisciplinary artist whose work uses music, singing, text and movement to explore rupture as a dynamic force. For this new creation, she invited Inés Sybille Vooduness, dancer and cultural researcher, and Matthew Jamal, interdisciplinary artist and composer. Together, they create a piece born from improvisations between music, sound and movement. Three presences, three territories and three worlds come together in a shared space, making three syllables resonate: Shi-Ka-Ma.
Like trees anchoring themselves to the earth they inhabit through roots, rhizomes and rootlets, while their branches are shaken by rumblings and storms, Shikama asks how we can take root despite everything. Perhaps the answer lies in a swaying triple metre, in an imbalance held together by a saving movement, or in a waiting for the third movement to resolve.
Presented as part of Alkantara Festival 2026, within the framework of the Salavisa European Dance Award, an initiative of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in partnership with leading institutions from the European dance sector.
Note it down
Post-show talk with Dorothée Munyaneza and Aoaní (in English) on 15 November.
Accessibility
The venue is accesible for people with reduced mobility.
Credits
Artistic direction & performance Dorothée Munyaneza Performance Inés Sybille Vooduness, Matthew Jamal Music composition Matthew Jamal, Dorothée Munyaneza Costumes Stéphanie Coudert Sound management Camille Frachet Production Virginie Dupray / Kadidi, assisted by Louise Mutabazi Coproduction Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation With support from the DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur / French Ministry of Culture
Based in Marseille, Dorothée Munyaneza is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses 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. Originally from Rwanda, Dorothée Munyaneza trained at the Jonas Foundation in London, and studied music and social sciences in Canterbury, before moving to France. She has collaborated with artists such as François Verret, Radouan Mriziga, Alain Mahé, Jean-François Pauvros, Robyn Orlin, Ko Murobushi, Nan Goldin,...
Inés Sybille Vooduness is a dancer, cultural researcher, and teacher. Born in Barcelona to a Catalan mother and Haitian father, her work explores Haitian Vodou through choreography, creating imagined encounters between spiritual traditions and contemporary dance forms such as Kuduro (Angola), Coupé-Décalé (Ivory Coast), and Dancehall (Jamaica). Previous works include Santa de sustrato autónomo (La Casa Encendida, 2023) and Simbi en águas astronómicas (TNT Festival/Teatro do Bairro Alto, 2024). In 2024, she was part of the 8-week Common Lab programme of the...
Matthew Jamal is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist and composer working across sound, movement, and electroaccoustic manipulation. Their practice explores improvisation as a compositional system and embodied method. From the ages of 14-18, they busked in Washington D.C and New York developing a solo performance language rooted in Black American traditions, western classical music and live looping which continues to inform their site-responsive work. Alongside their independent practice, Jamal has collaborated across music, dance, and film with artists...