Betty Tchomanga: Decolonial (Hi)stories # Parallel Portraits

Choreographer Betty Tchomanga takes up the political dimension of theater as a place for transmitting knowledge by setting affects in motion. Unfolding as a kind of history lesson, Decolonial (Hi)stories #Parallel Portraits, brings together four episodes—portraits—in which the performers take turns sharing their stories on stage. Through each episode, we discover a colonial history, shared by several continents: from France to Benin, Algeria, and Ethiopia, this journey through time and space becomes realized in the stories, dances, bodies, voices, and singular histories of four unique performers. Read more about the performance (movinginnovember.fi ↗) Photo © Grégoire Perrier