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The 2024 archive

Michael Disanka and Christiana Tabaro

Democratic Republic of Congo / Created in 2024

How to unleash a new dramaturgical writing based on materials that were discarded during previous creations? How to invent an original work from these forgotten traces of poetry? 

Trace... Christiana Tabaro & Michael Disanka © Christophe Raynaud de Lage / Festival d'Avignon

Presentation

Every show has its share of material set aside, of ideas that did not find a place in the final form. Michael Disanka and Christiana Tabaro call those fragments of scenes and other unfinished melodies their “poetic residue.” Delving into their archives, they turned those traces into a multidisciplinary performance: a testament to thirteen years during which a theatre that speaks to the world has been written in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

¿Cómo poner en marcha una nueva escritura dramatúrgica a partir de materiales que se descartaron en anteriores creaciones? ¿Cómo inventar una nueva obra gracias a esas huellas de poesía olvidadas? 

Distribution

With Michael Disanka, Taluyobisa Luheho, Kady-Vital Mavakala, Christiana Tabaro
Text, conception and direction Michael Disanka, Christiana Tabaro
Music Arnold Asende, Taluyobisa Luheho, Kady-Vital Mavakala
Administration, production, diffusion Mugoli Tabaro

Production

Production Collectif d'Art-d'Art
Coproduction SACD, Festival d'Avignon, French Institute of Kinshasa

Pictures

Audiovisual