SOUFFLE INDIAN OCEAN 1,2,3,4

The festival, which emphasizes creation, emergence and diversity, is a catalyst for meetings both for professionals from the countries of the Indian Ocean, Reunion and Mayotte and mainland France, and the populations at the heart of the Creole mix, so unique in Reunion.

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SHIMMERING DESIRE. SPARKLING DIVERSITY.

Intensity; sharing; perseverance; solidarity; strength; imagination; breath: the marks of a temperament shaped by the mixed cultures of the South, by the circumstances and upheavals of epidemics and climates, by the encounters of artists, places, populations in Reunion and its neighbors, from the Mascarenes to Mozambique.

The Breath is intense, as much as the world’s issues tied for so long in poverty and decolonization, the exploitation of the planet and its ocean. (…) From Reunion Island, it goes with the resilient heart of Africa’s neighbors, who are constantly tracing. It is a crucible of avant-garde life, a crucible of imagination for a new world, a crucible of peace.

#1 — 23 dancers and choreographers

Eric Languet, Soraya Thomas, Celine Amato, Marion Shrotzenberger, Edith Chateau, Chantal Loial, Idio Chichava, Jérôme Brabant, Nikita Goile, Didier Boutiana, Sylvie Robert, Claudio Rabe, Arushi Mudgal

SOUFFLE o.I#1

The festival that focuses on creation

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LIVING

From the ocean and the breath, we observe the movement, like that of thought and new imaginations, discoveries to cross, gestures meshed in memory and the living. Dancing the ocean like dancing the universe of possible unexplored desires, of joy, of hopes carried by the immense creative force of the living. Dancing in the breath is the air that we breathe and that animates us, an inspiration to take or to take again, the quivering of the wind, the powerful jet of expiration of the whale, the breath of the living.

The choreographic works of all these artists bear witness to the breath of resistance in the face of the numbness of an era fractured between the urgency of the transformation of bodies, imaginations, stories, and anxiety in the face of climate change, political, economic and social violence.

#2 — 9 dancers and choreographers

Marion Shrotzenberger, Cédric Marchais & Alexa Althiery, Edith Chateau, Manuela Thuy-Thuy, Kenji, Pak N’Djamena, Julie Iarisoa, Éric Languet and Wilson Payet, Harivola Rakotondrasoa, Djodjo Kazadi.

SOUFFLE O.I#2

The festival that focuses on emergence

SOUFFLE O.I#3

DANCE YOUR OCEAN!

Dance, like the vast, rich, living ocean, opens the imagination, deploys the bodies, transforms the gazes, connects the infinites. Lalanbik – center of choreographic development o.I registers its festival in Reunion, in the breath of the territories of the South, of Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa, India, Comoros, Kenya, in the multiple mesh of committed artistic organizations, of women and men who imagine and create their life under the trade winds.

It is an idea-exploration-is there one, “Indian Ocean gestures”? – our bet on a choreographic vitality capable of uncorking representations, of crossing the multiples, of setting in motion the sharing to be seen and recognized also, by the whole other world. #3 — 20 dancers and choreographersFernando Anuang’a, Soraya Thomas, Edith Chateau, Marion Brugial, Djodjo Kazadi, Celine Amato, Nikita Goile, Eric Languet, Pak Ndjamena – Jérôme Brabant and Pierre Fourny, Stephen Rolf Bongarçon, Lilcé VM, Hamza Lenoir, Julie Iarisoa, Salim M’ze Hamadi Moissi, Claudio Rabe, Phumlani Nyanga

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The festival that emphasizes diversity

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MIGRATE

Dance is not abstract from the world. Like any artistic form, it is inscribed between the social articulation of life and the structure of sensory perception of bodies that is always political. In dialogue with artists from Reunion Island and neighboring countries and territories, we have opened spaces and observed the compositions and writing that are revealed there, scrutinized the invisible beyond the known. The programming has imprinted itself, a palimpsest of the issues, troubles and desires of our world. It tells it and imagines it; it shouts it.

Migrate to escape the immobility of stupor and also to reinvent, break and shift codes. Migrate to make gestures, bodies and gazes flow, tremble and pour out. Artists speak of this world, help us to feel and imagine it, to be and feel complexity together. #4 — 22 dancers and choreographers Celine Amato, Edith Chateau, Maeva Curco Llovera, Salome Curco-llovera, Zoé Johnson Randrianajnaka Dinampitia, Sarah Dunaud, Armande Motais De Narbonne, Janeth Mulapha, Judith Olivia Manantenasoa, Amélie Pialot, Marion Schrotzenberger, Soraya Thomas, Konpani Kerlokan, Fernando Anuang’a, Stephen Rolf Bongarçon, L’Octogonale – Jérôme Brabant, Idio Chichava, Djodjo Kazadi, Eric Languet Thierry Micomyiza, Salim M’ze Hamadi Moissi.

SOUFFLE o.I#4

A festival that catalyzes meetings

Credits

An exhibition designed with Lalanbik -CDC Indian Ocean.