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PRODUCTION: Compagnie Bliss COPRODUTION: L’Artchipel, Scène Nationale de la GuadeloupeChoregraphe : Cadé, Stage Designer : Soylé, Compositor : Exxos Mètkakola

STAGE DESIGNER

SOYLÉ

COMPOSER

EXXÒS MÈTKAKOLA

SynopsisThe set is a skin of memories, a mosaic and a collage of all the life expe-riences. It brings together elements that contradict each other. This is what creates the problem to be solved:This woman has come to a point where all the parts of her skin clash, where the multiple aspects of her personality are getting mixed up.She has brought this skin of hers to so many places that she no longer knows how to wear it and live in it. She has become a stranger to herself, an outsider in her own story. In her quest to find herself, she will realize that Guadeloupe, her native land that she thought had been buried under all the other and newer parts of herself, had never left her and has always been the basis of this skin ,on top of which all the rest was constructed.The piece starts at the point where this overloaded skin had become com-pletely dysfunctional. This woman is no longer suitable to any land: too Guadeloupean to be a New Yorker, too much of a New Yorker to appreciate Guadeloupe, too French to be African, too Black to be Parisian…She starts locked up in her skin grafted of too many things that don’t go together.Throughout the piece she discovers and reveals all the parts of her skin of memories and will end up letting loose the patchwork of which it is com-posed. By reconciling with her body, her soul and her origin, she will set herself free and realize that her complexity is not a curse in fact because the Soul of the Creole is mosaic.

Born in Guadeloupe, Ca.Dé won many competitions and awards dance that have showcasted her reveal his her talent as dancer and choreogra-pher. In 2004 she moved to New York City to study at the Alvin Ailey School, after obtaining a grant from the Oprah Winfrey Foundation. Du-ring this training she had the privilege of studying with the great names of American modern dance such as Denise Jefferson, Peter London, Jac-queline Buglisi and Elizabeth Roxas.In 2005, she performed an excerpt from Judith Jaminson’s dance production “divining”. The years 2006 and 2007, Ca.Dé joined integrates the Urban Bush Women Company and was will be a permanent member for four seasons. In 2008 and 2009, she col-laborated with the choreographer Germaine Acogny and his company

The dancer CATHERINE DENECY

Gratuated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Lyon and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Soylé has deve-loped an international career as a Visual set designer who has worked in different places such as Haiti, Senegal (FESMA), New York, Jamaica...

Soylé lives in Guadeloupe where she trains, educates the public and profes-sionals, and continues her research which focuses on prioritizing the ele-ments of recovery and recycling technologies to reduce the hardware cost of productions and promote the use and development of local know-how. Explore marginality and "ressourcefullness" as an act of creation that opens new ideas for scenography. Provide mobile scenography that reflects the constraints of traveling artists. Stimulate further researches towards new kind of stages, new locations for them and new relation between artists, technicians and the audience. “The right place is in motion.”

The set designerSOYLÉ

Jant-Bifor for his dance production the creation of the piece Memory Scales which, after a tour in the U.S. and Europe, was presented at the 3rd Festi-val des Arts Nègres (FESMAN) Senegal (December 2010). In 2010,she re-ceived the Grand Prix of Artistic Creation for the dance project co-created with designer Soylé "UnpeuBeaucoupAlafoliePasdutout" and coproduced by The Artchipel, Scène Nationale de la Guadeloupe. Ca.Dé 2011 founded in Guadeloupe the BLISS Company to run the show “UnpeuBeaucoupaA-lafoliePasdutout" on the international scene.

Pioneer of Creole Hip-Hop, Exxos is a Guadeloupan beatmaker and heir of contemporary world music. In 2003 he created the concept of KAKO music. Kako music is the alliance between the traditional music of Gua-deloupe and Martinique (gwoka, bèlè, biguinne, zouk ...) mixed with mo-dern sounds and electronic "urban music " (hip-hop, dancehall, electro, ...). Kako is not only electronic or only traditional but fully represent an innovative breath of contemporary Creole expression.

The composerEXXÒS MÈTKAKOLA

This is a solo for two, designed by a scenographer, Soylé and a dancer and choreographer, Catherine Dénécy, both Guadelou-pean. The stage is empty apart from the soundscape, which alter-nates between voices and music. In four tableaux, the dancer moves through the stages of a journey and a return to her native island. Her only partner is a light colored piece of fabric which, by turns, becomes a luggage, skin, sleeping mat and intimate territory. It embodies the question asked by this solo: what does it mean to be Creole? and forms the central axis of the choreography. Alternating between daily postures - walking, running - and a swaying dance which swings and undulates, Catherine Dénécy never looses touch with this "skin of life", a sensitive and physical representation of her creolity.