OFFTA

Marie-Reine Kabasha

Marie-Reine Kabasha's Ce qui m'habite, photo by Clémence Clara

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May 28, 2025 - 8PM

May 29, 2025 - 6PM

 

Discussion with the artists on May 29 - 6:45PM

May 28, 2025
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May 29, 2025
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Annual artistic event created on the edge of the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), OFFTA is a festival dedicated to emerging avant-garde creation in live arts. Since 2007, it scans the local artistic landscape in order to highlight creators whose projects trace new avenues in theatre, dance, and performance. The OFFTA grounds its identity on an artistic direction that favors solid and singular approaches, emerging practices, and experimentation.

Body, Affect, and Commitment in Improvisation – A conversation with Marie-Reine Kabasha and her team (40 minutes)

May 29 – 6:45PM

Animée par Louise Michel Jackson (comité de programmation du OFFTA), cette conversation offrira un espace d’échange autour de la démarche artistique de Marie-Reine Kabasha. En développant des structures d’improvisation favorisant l’expression physique authentique, Marie-Reine explore la rencontre avec soi dans le mouvement, entre incertitude, persévérance et lâcher-prise. Son approche, fondée sur le silence, l’improvisation et l’intégration de son affectif, interroge les résistances du corps et de la psyché. Accompagnée de collaboratrices en danse et relation d’aide, elle approfondit l’engagement physique et émotionnel. Ce moment d’échange suivra la présentation de Ce qui m’habite.

Marie-Reine Kabasha

Ce qui m’habite

Deeply intimate in its relationship with the audience, this choreographic improvisation embodies a desire to meet oneself. Seeking to bear witness to what passes through her at the very moment of the performance, Marie-Reine reveals herself in an exploration of content and container, uncertainty and perseverance, letting go and being present to oneself no matter what.

40 minutes

Creation and performance Marie-Reine Kabasha

Executive producer Lorganisme

Artistic consultant and movement facilitator Alanna Kraaijeveld

Artistic consultant and expression facilitator Josée McCann

Artistic consultant and movement facilitator Mecdy Jean-Pierre

Artistic consultant and movement facilitator Nindy Banks

Artistic consultant and movement facilitator Jaleesa Coligny

Lighting designer Leticia Hamaoui

Creation residency Circuit-Est, D’arts et de rêve, Agora de la danse, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, LA SERRE – arts vivants

With the support of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal

Special thanks to Un immense merci à mon équipe de collaborateur·rices sans qui je n’aurais pas pu plonger pleinement dans ce projet qui m’appelait: Alanna Kraaijeveld, Josée McCann, Mecdy Jean-Pierre, Nindy Banks, Jaleesa Coligny, Leticia Hamaoui, Roger White, Lorganisme, LA SERRE – arts vivants et l’inoubliable Frédérique PAX Dumas. Merci également à tous·tes ceux/celles qui ont cru en moi et en ce projet et qui m’ont insufflé du courage à un moment ou à un autre: CALQ, CAM, LA SERRE, Lorganisme, Circuit-Est, Yoann Charvolen (Le Studio), Studio 303, Parbleux, le réseau des maisons de la culture, D’arts et de rêve, Devenirs corps et Bside.

Marie-Reine Kabasha‘s artistic approach is based on the development of improvisational structures and choreographic tools that encourage authentic physical expression. She is interested in the notion of self-acceptance, working alongside movement facilitators to defuse certain censorship mechanisms that hinder the body and the sense of self.

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