Avignon Festival: Eva Doumbia and Joëlle Sambi Nzeba, two women artivists

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From left to right: Eva Doumbia and Joëlle Sambi Nzeba © For Eva Doumbia Nicolas Benita / RFI / For Joëlle Sambi Nzeba Barbara Buchmann-Cotterot

By: Pascal Paradou

31 min

Two women “artivists” invited today: the actress and director Eva Doumbia and the Belgian-Congolese slammer and author Joëlle Sambi Nzeba. 

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Guests: 

Festival In: 

Eva Doumbia

: the author, actress and director and founder of the company "

La part

duauvre

, Nana Triban

" dissects with her show "

Autophagies (Stories of bananas, rice, tomatoes, peanuts, palm trees. And then fruits, sugar, chocolate)

”the history and origin of our food: a“ documentary Eucharist ”, in his words.

It reminds us of the history of the migration of our food, but also the colonial history that results from it ... 

"When I was little, I was ashamed to eat bananas at school. I was afraid we would make monkey calls."  

Autophagies

is played from July 14 to 20, 2021 at the socio-cultural complex of La Barbière.

A show co-written with

Armand Gauz

and which mixes theater, music, dance and cooking. 

With

Alexandre Bella Ola

, Bamoussa Diomande, Lionel Élian, Angelica-Kiyomi Tisseyre,

Olga Mouak.

Photo of the show Autophagies © Thomas Cartron

Festival Off: 

Joëlle Sambi-Nzeba

, Belgian-Congolese author and slammer.

His show “Fusion”, a slam and “krump” (an urban hip-hop dance) show highlights police and social violence: “a great cry of poetic rage”, according to him. 

Merger

is performed at the

Théâtre des Doms d'Avignon

, from July 5 to 27, 2021. With the dancer Hendrickx Ntela.

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