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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