Inés Sybille Vooduness & Malvin Puerca de Goma
Creole Cadences, Ten Thousand Times Unfolded
A shared mystery shaped by memory, movement, and relation.
Dressed in matching purple, Inés Sybille Vooduness and Malvin Puerca de Goma move through an installation of hanging metal pieces that swing and clang around them. Drawing on Caribbean and African dance forms such as Kuduro, Dancehall, and Denbow, their choreography creates a shifting sonic landscape where identity is remixed through rhythm, friction, and collective resonance.
Creole Cadences, Ten Thousand Times Unfolded pulses between reference and reinvention. At times, the performers appear as the Marassa twins of Vodou cosmology—figures of duality, transformation, and mystery. At others, their bodies become antenas, receiving and reconfiguring fragments of gesture, archival imagery, internet culture, and lived experience.
Through sound, movement, and vibration, the work opens a space where memory is continuously reactivated and transformed—a diasporic landscape suspended between ritual, celebration, and survival.
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Workshop with Inés Sybille Vooduness, Body of inputs and outputs, on 18 November at Espaço Alkantara. Free, subject to registration.
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Original Title Cadências crioulas, dez mil vezes desdobradas Artistic director Inés Sybille Vooduness Created and performed by Inés Sybille Vooduness, Malvin Puerca de Goma Accompaniment in movement, gesture and Afro-Caribbean singing Sheila Ramirez External Eye Virginie Dupray Scenography and costumes Neusa Trovoada Sound design Nelsoniq Video Heidi Ramírez Dramaturgy Sarah Lewis-Cappellari Light design matéria leve – light design and technical direction by Bee Barros and Gabriela Claveria, mentored by Leticia Skrycky Produced by Alkantara – Sinara Suzin, Lysandra Domingues Coproduced by Alkantara, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles and MC93, in the context of Common Stories, with funding from Creative Europe/European Union Creation Grant O Espaço do Tempo, with the support of BPI and the "la Caixa" Foundation Residency Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre (Brussels), CAE – Centre for Artistic Experimentation, Moita Town Council (PT)
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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...
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Los Mina). Malvin Puerca de Goma 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,...