Inés Sybille Vooduness dwells into the spiritual and existential narratives submerged beneath a land of high mountains: Ayiti. Is it possible to reterritorialize Haitian voodoo from an inherited diaspora? From selected steps of the Angolan Kuduro, the dancer reaches a state in which she can establish a dialogue with Simbi, a family of deities that guard springs and waters. Krik? Krak! An aquatic tale begins in which Erzulie embarks on the ocean, the waters rise, and take the form of the ancestral serpent and the post-memory exercises. Can these gestures allow access to secrets and to the revolutionary temperature, to the invisible? Simbi and its different personifications from the mineral, vegetal, and aquatic realms propel a future that exists without time and is inscribed in a collective act of non-colonial dreams.
Credits
Direction and Choreography
Inés Sybille Vooduness
Artistic Support
Camilo Mejía Cortés
Costumes and Set Design
Sofía Archer Lab
Sound Design
Nelsoniq
Image and Video
Heidi Ramírez
Lighting Design
Ivan Cascon
Co-productions
TNT Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto
Technical Residencies
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Cultura en Viu in collaboration with the TNT Festival)
Co-production Residency
O Espaço do Tempo
Inés Sybille Vooduness is a dancer, cultural researcher, and teacher. Inés Sybille creates fictional encounters with Haitian Voodoo deities through her choreographic field: Kuduro from Angola, Coupé Décalé from Ivory Coast, and Dancehall from Jamaica. The artist shapes this philosophical material and explores, by reterritorializing these codes, the possibility of producing her subjective place in the world and in an the idea of a transtemporal diaspora.