OFFTA, festival d’arts vivants
Marie-Reine Kabasha
ÉDIFICE WILDER | Espace Vert
May 28, 2025 - 8PM
May 29, 2025 - 6PM
Discussion with the artists on May 29 - 6:45PM
The OFFTA is a festival dedicated to emerging and avant-garde creation in the live arts. Created on the fringes of the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), the OFFTA showcases creators whose singular and committed approaches lay the groundwork for new artistic currents. The festival aims to decategorize contemporary artistic practices and their respective audiences. It presents and produces events that challenge established norms and question modes of representation, fostering collaboration and collective experiences.
Body, Affect and Commitment in Improvisation – A conversation with Marie-Reine Kabasha and her team (40 minutes)
May 29 – 6:45PM
Moderated by Louise Michel Jackson (a member of the OFFTA programming committee), this conversation will offer a space to delve into Marie-Reine Kabasha’s artistic approach. By developing improvisational structures that foster authentic physical expression, Marie-Reine explores encountering oneself through movement, navigating uncertainty and perseverance, letting go, and presence. Her approach draws on improvisation, silence, and emotional integration. Working with collaborators from dance and therapeutic backgrounds, she examines the body’s and psyche’s resistances in order to deepen physical and emotional engagement in the present moment. This discussion will be an opportunity to explore her creative process and the tools she uses to transform uncertainty into a catalyst for choreographic exploration. This moment of exchange will take place in French, following the second performance of 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.
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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