Dorothée Munyaneza, A CAPELLA, 2022

In a ca­pel­la, Do­ro­thée Mu­nya­ne­za’s po­ly­glot songs are roo­ted in nar­ra­tives that are ra­re­ly, if ever, heard. This per­for­mance-ce­re­mo­ny is a poe­tic ges­ture about per­iphe­ral beings, with ra­di­cal love at its cen­ter. With strength and de­li­ca­cy, the ar­tist weaves the links bet­ween present and ab­sent, past and fu­ture.

Based in Mar­seille, Do­ro­thée Mu­nya­ne­za’s work is fiery. Ori­gi­nal­ly from Rwan­da, she moved to En­gland with her fa­mi­ly in 1994 at the age of 12. She stu­died music at the Jonas Foun­da­tion (Lon­don) and so­cial sciences at Can­ter­bu­ry, be­fore mo­ving to France. In 2006, she met Fran­çois Ver­ret, with whom she col­la­bo­ra­ted on Sans Re­tour, Ice, Ca­ba­ret and Do you re­mem­ber, no I don’t. She went on to work with Alain Buf­fard, Alain Mahé, Sté­pha­nie Cou­dert, Ko Mu­ro­bu­shi, Ra­chid Ou­ram­dane, Maud Le Pla­dec, Jean-Fran­çois Pau­vros, Ra­douan Mri­zi­ga, Maya Mi­hin­dou and Ben Lamar Gay. In 2013, she foun­ded her own com­pa­ny, Ka­di­di. Sa­me­di Dé­tente (pre­mie­red No­vem­ber 2014 at Théâtre de Nîmes), Un­wan­ted (pre­mie­red July 2017 at Fes­ti­val d’Avi­gnon), Mailles (pre­mie­red Oc­to­ber 2020 at Char­le­roi Danse) and in 2023, Toi, moi, Ti­tu­ba... with the mu­si­cian Khyam Al­la­mi.

In 2020, Do­ro­thée Mu­nya­ne­za trans­lates from En­glish Kae Tem­pest’s Ho­pe­less­ly De­vo­ted, pu­bli­shed as In­con­di­tion­nelles by L’Arche Édi­teur, a play she will stage at Les Bouffes du Nord in late 2024. As­so­ciate ar­tist at Théâtre de la Ville - Paris from 2018 to 2021, Do­ro­thée is now as­so­cia­ted with Théâtre Na­tio­nal de Chaillot and Mai­son de la Danse in Lyon, and in re­si­dence at Fon­da­tion Ca­mar­go from 2022 to 2024.