Production Details / Press Releases
Four bodies defy, choose, and free themselves from the multiple layers of violence that have shaped them over time: Soa Ratsifandrihana’s new work, simultaneously a dance choreography and a musical composition, excavates the corporal, oral, and melodic tales of diasporic lives. Together with a guitarist and two performers, she embarks on a wandering journey between Madagascar and several continents, between the history of movement and its heritage. “Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna” (translating to “Comparison, transmission, rivalry”) is a poetic reminder that not only words but also bodies and sounds can reshape the histories we inherit.
www.amabrussels.org/en/soa-ratsifandrihana
Soa Ratsifandrihana is a dancer and choreographer. After studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Soa worked with James Thierrée, Salia Sanou and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. In October 2021, she presented her first solo show, “g r oo v e”, in Brussels. The show has been performed more than 40 times and continues to tour Europe. In parallel, Soa premiered a diptych in May 2024, in which she tells a story she would have liked to have heard as a child. The two parts of this diptych take the form of a radio production “Ce n’est pas moi qui mens, ce sont les anciens” and a show entitled “Fampitaha, fampita fampitàna”. Following on from her first solo, she is interested in the possible entanglements between radio narrative, choreographic and musical composition, reminding us that our bodies, just like our words, are the carriers of stories. Soa is an associate artist at Kaaitheater from 2023 to 2025.
[Source: tanzimaugust.de]
TFB Nr. 1907
Cast & Credits
Concept & Idea: Soa Ratsifandrihana
By & with: Audrey Merilus, Stanley Ollivier, Joël Rabesolo, Soa Ratsifandrihana
Original music: Joël Rabesolo
Dramaturgy: Lily Brieu Nguyen
Artistic cooperation: Jérémie Polin Razanaparany aka Raza, Amelia Ewu, Thi Mai Nguyen
Light design: Marie-Christine Soma
Sound design: Chloé Despax, Guilhem Angot
Costumes: Harilay Rabenjamina
Support with questions about tradition & identity: Prisca Ratovonasy
Text: Sékou Semega
Footwork choreography: Raza
Video: Valérianne Poidevin
Technique: Blaise Cagnac
Licht: Diane Guérin
Sound engineering: Guilhem Angot
Development, production, distribution: ama brussels – Babacar Ba, Clara Schmitt, France Morin
Outside eye: Marie Dogahe
Stage technician (HAU): Sujin Choi, Bernhard Linde
Lighting technician (HAU): Klaus Dust, Lea Schneidermann, Nicolás Russi
Video (HAU): Julia Cremers
Sound technician (HAU): Janis Klinkhammer, Frieder Naumann
Technical production (HAU): Kevin Pahl
Production: ama brussels, Théâtre Varia in collaboration with Météores
Co-production: Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Kaaitheater, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre Varia, Charleroi danse, MC93 — Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, ICI – centre chorégraphique national Montpellier Occitanie / Direction Christian Rizzo, centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans – direction Maud Le Pladec, Le Gymnase-CDCN Roubaix, La Place de la Danse-CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, Fonds Yavarhoussen, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Tanz im August, La Coop asbl, Shelter Prod, A-CDCN (Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon, La Manufacture – CDCN Nouvelle- Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Chorège CDCN Falaise Normandie, Le Pacifique – CDCN Grenoble – Auvergne – Rhône- Alpes, Touka Danses – CDCN Guyane, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts- de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg, La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, La Maison Danse CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne)
Residencies: ICI – CCN Montpellier Occitanie, La Bellone – Maison du spectacle, Gemeenschapscentrum De Kriekelaar, Université d’Antananarivo, KAAP, Le Gymnase-CDCN Roubaix, Théâtre Varia, CCN d’Orléans, Radio Grenouille
Supported by: Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la danse, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, ING and Tax Shelter of the Belgian federal government
Tanz im August 2024
Artistic Director: Ricardo Carmona
Executive Producer Festival: Stefan Nagel
Producer & Dramaturge: Alina Lauer
Producer & Team Assistance: Luzie Barzen
Production: Mascha Euchner-Martinez
Production Associates: Carim Sol Al Samarraie, Feli Braun, Arantxa Ciafrino, Sophie Hübner, Lu Yu Zou
Technical Director Festival: Ingo Ruggenthaler
Tanz im August is a festival by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund.
Video Documentation
The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):
University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)