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TROPIQUE DU KEPONE

Creation 2024

After Les fabriques de Tropique du képone, a time of artistic exploration of the imaginary body and the plastic arts, Myriam Soulanges-Back Art Diffusion and Marlène Myrtil Compagnie Kaméléonite, conceptualize their encounter around this research areas with ecological resonances: the use of pesticides and soil pollution in the West Indies.

For these two artists, choosing to base their work on this recurring theme is a form of resistance and struggle, and undeniably a political act.

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Tropique du Képone is an Afrofuturist performance art piece. In it, there is a  focus on the urgency to act and on the need to disregard governmental policies. It is about building a victorious future which will bring trust and healing to our past and present struggles.

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Bearing a strong  and rebellious imagination, the two artists perform in a space of reciprocity, fade,  resistance, reconstruction and resilience in  the center of a set designed by shades of blue.

 

Blue Kepone... Or barbaric blue in the midst of victorious uprisings nourished by the archive, the story and the speech.

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Aside from an ecological reflection, this choreographic fiction highlights fragmented, distended and persistent body movements  which reveal a heroic mutation.

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ARTISTIC TEAM

Choreography and performance: Marlène Myrtil and Myriam Soulanges

Scenography and lights: Bia Kaysel
Dramaturgy: Manon Worms
Consulting, dramaturgy: Michael Roch
Music: Yann Cléry

Light manager: Bia Kaysel alternating
Myriam Adjallé and Viviane Vermingon

Costume design: Stephanie Vaillant
Photo credit: Eloïse Legay

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représentations

12

20

performances

SUPPORT 

European Union, Institut français, OCTA and APCA dans le cadre du projet-pilote
« Archipel.eu »
DAC Guadeloupe, DAC Martinique, FEAC - Ministère des Outre Mer, Région Guadeloupe, Département Guadeloupe, CTM Martinique

Groupe Caisse des Dépôts
with the support of Villa Albertine, New York

Spedidam

Théâtre Molière - Scène nationale de l'archipel de Thau, Sète


Coproductions: CCN de Tours, Tropiques Atrium Scène nationale de Martinique and CDCN Touka Danses Guyane

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Acknowledgments : Lazaro Benitez Diaz,
Isabela Fernandez Santana, Célia Diop
Fana Fraser, Marseille Objectif Danse
Collectif des Ouvriers Agricoles

TOURING HISTORY

2026

February 10 and 11: Théâtre de Cornouaille, Quimper

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2025
May 6:
Studio K622 in Orgeval, Manège de Reims

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2024

November 29: L'Encre EPCC in Cayenne, 20th festival des Danses Métisses - Touka Danses CDCN Guyane 

November 27: Centre culturel Ho Ten You in Rémire-Montjoly (Guyane), 20th festival des Danses Métisses - Touka Danses CDCN Guyane 
July 10-14: Festival Off d’Avignon, TOMA, Théâtre de la Chapelle du Verbe Incarné

June 8: festival Monde, Théâtre l’air libre, St-Jacques de la Lande 

May 28: festival June Events, Théâtre de l'Aquarium - Atelier de Paris/CDCN 

May 22: Centre culturel Léo Malet, Mireval - avec le Théâtre Molière - Scène nationale archipel de Thau

May 19: Passages Transfestival, Metz - France​

March 19-23: Tournée CEDAC : MACTe - Pointe à Pitre, Centre culturel Robert Loyson - Le Moule, Centre culturel Sonis, Les Abymes - Guadeloupe 

March 14 and 15: Tropiques Atrium - Scène Nationale de Martinique, festival CEIBA

RESIDENCiES

Creation residencies : 

November 27 to December 7, 2023: New York Live Arts in NYC with the support of  Villa Albertine
September 4 to 15: CCN of Tours
July 3 to 13, 2023: CND of Pantin
May 22 to 31, 2023: CDCN Touka Danse Guyane, Cayenne
March 6 to 17, 2023: Dans les Parages, Cie la Zouze, Marseille

 

Research residencies :

January 23 to January 31, 2023: Les fabriques de Tropique du képone, Tropiques Atrium, Fort-de-France
September 23 to October 4, 2022: Le Moule, Guadeloupe
June 24 to July 2, 2022: Tropiques Atrium, Fort-de-France
March 10 to March 15, 2022: Terre d’Arts, Tivoli, Fort-de France

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Tropique du Képone

Tropique du Képone

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