Cadences créoles, dix mille fois dédoublées by Inés Sybille Vooduness
Produced by Alkantara
In Cadences créoles, dix mille fois dédoublées, Inés Sybille and Malvin Montero glide through questions inspired by the Marassa Jumeaux, the divine twins in Vodou iconography.
In a gesture of underground escape that is nonetheless marked by lightness, the dancers forge a new set of images — a metallic, spiralling, sticky, playful, and dangerous poetics. Like a web of diasporic connection, Angolan Kuduro, Jamaican Dancehall, and Dominican Dembow allow them to flirt with horns, guns, and laments.
Through the syncretism of this confusion of codes — in which Malvin and Inés mobilize and produce memory — this union reterritorializes an erotic, protective, and strategic spirituality.
Inés Sybille Vooduness was one of the selected artists for CommonLAB 2024. Cadences créoles, dix mille fois dédoublées is now one of the three Alkantara production projects for the year of 2025.
Performances
14 November (Premiere)
7:00pm — O Espaço do Tempo (Oficina Magina)*
15 November
9:30pm — O Espaço do Tempo (Oficina Magina)*
* Admission is free, but booking is required via (+351) 913 699 891 or info@oespacodotempo.pt
For more information about the performance, contact lysandra@alkantara.pt
Credits
Directed by Inés Sybille Vooduness Performed and created by Inés Sybille Vooduness and Malvin Montero Set and costume design Neusa Trovoada Sound design Nelsoniq Video design Heidi Ramírez Dramaturgy Sarah Lewis-Cappellari Lighting design matéria leve (Design and technical directors Bee Barros, Gabriela Claveria Mentored by Leticia Skrycky) Produced by Alkantara - Lysandra Domingues Co-produced by Alkantara, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles and MC93, in the context of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme funded by the European Union Creation grant O Espaço do Tempo, with the support of BPI and the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation Residencies Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre (Brussels)
Inés Sybille Vooduness is a dancer, cultural researcher, and teacher. Born in Barcelona to a Catalan mother and a Haitian father, she currently resides in Lisbon. Inés Sybille creates fictional encounters with Haitian Vodou deities through her choreographic field: Kuduro from Angola, Coupé Décalé from Côte d’Ivoire, and Dancehall from Jamaica. She shapes this philosophical material and explores the possibility of producing an existential awareness by reterritorializing these codes. In 2023, Inés was selected as an artist-in-residence at La Casa Encendida with...
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Los Mina). Malvin Montero began his dance career in 2003 at the Alina Abreu Dance Conservatory. He graduated from the National School of Dance of Fine Arts (Endanza) and Pro Danza (Havana). He holds a degree in choreography and dance performance from Rey Juan Carlos University (ISDAl) in Madrid, Spain. He performed in Cecilia Valdés at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, being part of the first Black ballet in that theater. He also worked as a dancer in the opera Un Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain. He...