2pm - 4pm:
DANCE & REAPPROPRIATION OF BLACK BODIES: POLITICAL AND THERAPEUTIC ISSUES?
Dances inherited from African cultures featuring Afro-descendants are enjoying growing international success. If we can only rejoice at the enthusiasm around 'contemporary African dances', they cannot be appreciated in all their richness and complexity without historicizing the relationships relating to black bodies. Indeed, in post-colonial and post-slavery societies, historical contexts have an impact on the making of imaginations and the alterity of bodies from which artistic productions can only with difficulty free themselves. Thus, how to stage black bodies by considering them as subjects rather than objects and how to promote Afro-descendant cultures through dance without essentializing them?
To draw lines of thought, the 6th edition of Afrodyssée explores how dance can be used as a tool for reclaiming black bodies and their biographies. Through discussions punctuated by participatory performances, the various speakers question the therapeutic scope of dance as a means allowing the production of a discourse on oneself – individual and collective.
2.30 pm - 6.30pm:
NORTH AFRICAIN MUSIQCS AND HIP HOP: INFLUENCES AND INSPIRATIONS
Maghrebian music is the result of a long history that draws its origins from varied geographical roots and multiple evolutions. Socio-cultural changes in the region have been accompanied by population displacements and have given rise to cross-cultural hybridizations giving rise to a myriad of rhythms and sounds. Influence of Islam, Andalusian, Berber, Bedouin, Arabic or Sub-Saharan creolization, North African music is at the confluence of different cultural universes.
More recently, according to the migrations favored by globalization and (post-)colonial history, a new genre has come to sublimate Maghreb music: hip-hop – a more recent movement born in the United States before crossing the Atlantic. Through these journeys in different space-times, how do hip-hop cultures and North African music influence each other?
For its 6th edition, Afrodyssée proposes to tell this musical encounter and to explore its new aesthetic imaginaries thanks to the interventions of intellectuals and artists. The discussions returning to the musical trajectories of these different genres will be punctuated by musical interludes.
