Wanjiru Kamuyu
Fragmented Shadows
Tickets start at $30 w/ limited Pay-What-You-Wish options
How to tell invisibilized stories, how to offer voice and light to these stories, stories imprinted in our bodies, is the space of intrigue and investigation behind Fragmented Shadows. The trio invokes the inaudible wounds that are archived in one’s body. The work treats the body as a museum, a library, a mausoleum of memories, collective and individual, sweet and bitter. Fragmented Shadows is grounded in epigenetic and psychosomatic research, and the consideration of the body in movement as a space of healing justice work. The three performers embark upon an abstracted journey, contemplative and
immersive, stimulating and evocative, mysterious and carnal. Fragmented Shadows is an exploratory probe of visceral, sensorial and emotional landscapes, which filters traumas to keep only lightness.
About L’Alliance New York
L’Alliance New York is an independent, not-for-profit organization committed to providing its audience and students with engaging French language classes and audacious multi-disciplinary programming that celebrates the diversity of francophone cultures and creativity around the world. A welcoming and inclusive community for all ages and all backgrounds, L’Alliance New York is a place where people can meet, learn, and explore the richness of our heritages and share discoveries. L’Alliance New York strives to amplify voices and build bridges from the entire francophone world to New York and beyond.
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Choreography: Wanjiru Kamuyu with Sherwood Chen and Elodie Paul
Performers: Sherwood Chen, Wanjiru Kamuyu, Elodie Paul
Original music: LACRYMOBOY
Costume and set design: Birgit Neppl
Lighting design: Cyril Mulon
Artistic associate: David Gaulein-Stef
Producer: Dirk Korell
Tour manager: David Gaulein-Stef
Supported by FUSED, a program of Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation.
CO-PRODUCTION
Le Tangram, scène nationale Evreux Louviers
Le Quartz – Scène nationale de Brest
L’Onde Théâtre Centre d’Art, Scène Conventionnée d’Intérêt National – Art et Création pour la Danse
Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes – Direction Ambra Senatore
VIADANSE – Direction Fatoumi/Lamoureux, Centre chorégraphique national de Bourgogne Franche-Comté in Belfort, in the framework of studio residences – a program of the Ministry of Culture and Communication and DRAC Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Compagnie DCA / La Chaufferie
PUBLIC FUNDING
Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France
Région Ile-de-France
PRIVATE SPONSORSHIP
With the support of Caisse des Dépôts
With additional support provided by Sweat Variant
COMMISSION SUPPORT
The creation of Fragmented Shadows receives commissioning support from New York Live Arts’ Live Feed creative residency program, which is supported in part by Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Partners for New Performance.
RESIDENCIES
Compagnie DCA / La Chaufferie
L’Onde Théâtre Centre d’Art
CCN Belfort – Viadanse
CCN Nantes in the frame of the studio program, with the support of Ministry of Culture/DRAC Pays-de-la-Loire
Le Tangram, scène nationale Evreux Louviers
Villa Albertine (New York City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston)
PS21, Chatham (New York)
New York Live Arts (New York City)
CCN Belfort – Viadanse | CCN Nantes
REHEARSAL SPACE
CN D Centre national de la danse, Pantin
La Briqueterie, CDCN Val-de-Marne
