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Alphonse Eklou Uwantege

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Queer Sagittarius, born in Minsk to a Rwandan mother and a Togolese father. Alphonse is a model, performer and director based in Brussels. Their practice uses the body as a tool, writing as a weapon of resurrection, and performance as...

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reste(s)
is a ritual of tribute to my uncle,
Alphonse Kanimba,
who died during the genocide of the Tutsis,
one day in April 1994.

reste(s)
speaks of transmissions,
this mortuary legacy
that we did not choose,
yet which imprints itself on the living.

reste(s)
of a name,
of a story,
of a genocide,
of a trauma,
of a wandering soul
that cannot find its way out.
In this solo,
it is about origins
and those familial ties that support us
but sometimes become unbearable.

reste(s)
offers a reflection
danced, spoken, whispered
on the dialogue with those ghosts
who haunt us,
on what we choose to reclaim
or leave behind,
on the stories passed down to us
despite ourselves.
But this “us”,
where does it truly lie?

CONCEPT, WRITING AND PERFORMANCE ALPHONSE EKLOU UWANTEGE // DRAMATURGY & CO-WRITING ALICE JUMELLE // LIGHT DESIGN MARIANA BLANC MOYA // SOUND DESIGN ASHLEY MARTIN (HYSOPE) // HOSTS GOLESTÂN OUTIL-ROUHI, NAYA ALEZINA // EXTERNAL EYES KRYSTEL KHOURY, SABINE CMELNISKI //EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION THÉÂTRE DE LA VIE // DISTRIBUTION HABEMUS PAPAM (CORA-LINE LEFÈVRE, ROSINE LOUVIAUX, ALIX MARAVAL, APOLLINE PAQUET) //SUPPORT ISAC BRUSSELS, RAVIEVERSAIRE, BÂTARD FESTIVAL, LA BELLONE, THÉÂTRE DE LA VIE, LES RENCONTRES À L’ÉCHELLE, WIPCOOP, BAMP, AFRICA IS / IN THE FUTURE, LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, AVEC L’AIDE DE LA FÉDÉRATION WALLONIE-BRUXELLES, SERVICE GÉNÉRAL DE LA CRÉATION ARTISTIQUE – SERVICE DE LA DANSE //DEDICATION I DEDICATE THIS PERFORMANCE TO MY COUSINS NAOMI K. AND CÉDRIC K., TO MY BROTHERS AND MY PARENTS, AND TO THE MILLIONS OF INVISIBLE PEOPLE THIS GENOCIDE HAS LEFT BEHIND //ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VALÉRIE MAIONE ET L’ARBRE DU MONASTÈRE DE JETTE, LE CAFÉ MOKA, VIC ROY, HABIB BEN TANFOUS, NAÏM BELHALOUMI, NABIL ENNASSOUH, COSTA TOMBROFF, SÉKOU SÉMÉGA, MUCYO ARNAUD ICYOGERE, ENZO PEZELLA, KOPANO MAROGA, ALEKSANDRA JANEVA IMFELD, PAULA ALMIRON, CAROLINA MENDONÇA, LOUISE VANNESTE, LES ÉTUDIANT·ES D’ISAC BRUSSELS, ARTHUR SIMON, BRANDON KANO BUTARE.

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