Combat des lianes

Through the shadows of a sacred forest, inhabited and loaded with the heritage of ancestral wealth, the bodies arise. They tangle together, interlace, contort in the tracery of an intense, captivating dance, like the liana vines seeking the canopy. After L'Opéra du villageois, last season, examining the theft of works of art during colonisation, Zora Snake is continuing to explore relationships of domination. Here, resistance dances in the heart of the lianas, at once a unity and a multiplicity, head-to-head with the deforestation threatening the native peoples of Central Africa.

A long-time friend of the Théâtre National, Zora Snake embeds his work within a committed line of research, where dance becomes a performative act of rebellion and justice to restore the soul of our humanity. Immersed among the Baka communities living in the equatorial forests, the choreograph-performer and the interpreter-creators have absorbed the polyphonic rhythms and the polyrhythmic movements of those whose habitat is disappearing under the assaults of capitalism. On the stage, seven dancers and musicians - a sacred number linked to solidarity and the spirit of urgency in the cosmogonies of the peoples in Western Cameroon - form an organic mural, in which the silhouettes cling to each other, sometimes smoothly, sometimes convulsively. Fed by electro-beats and shamanic throbbing, the music bears along and structures this dialogue between the human being and their environment. A ritual, like a place of healing.

Première
Création Studio Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles