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Three dance artists wearing bright clothes pose mid performance. They have glow sticks around their necks and arms and are wearing bright running shoes on the white dance floor. Two dance artists wearing bright clothes pose mid performance. They have glow sticks around their necks and arms and are wearing bright running shoes on the white dance floor. Two dance artists sit on office chairs mid performance. They are wearing bright clothing and sneakers and have their fingers up around their face so their eyes and noses are poking out. Three dance artists wearing bright clothes pose mid performance. They have glow sticks around their necks and arms and are wearing bright running shoes on the white dance floor.
Three dance artists wearing bright clothes pose mid performance. They have glow sticks around their necks and arms and are wearing bright running shoes on the white dance floor.
Two dance artists wearing bright clothes pose mid performance. They have glow sticks around their necks and arms and are wearing bright running shoes on the white dance floor.
Two dance artists sit on office chairs mid performance. They are wearing bright clothing and sneakers and have their fingers up around their face so their eyes and noses are poking out.
Three dance artists wearing bright clothes pose mid performance. They have glow sticks around their necks and arms and are wearing bright running shoes on the white dance floor.

Performance | Global Dance Connections series

Tangaj Collective

Ramanenjana

Ramanenjana is a docufiction performance about a mysterious ‘dance epidemic’ which swept Madagascar for four months in 1863, bringing thousands of people to the streets to dance nonstop to the magnetic music of the drums. Examining conflicting accounts of the event, the work traces its political and religious implications, and how colonialism may have spread misconceptions about an extraordinary movement – and questions the role of dance itself in society.

Choreographers Simona Deaconescu (Romania) and Gaby Saranouffi (Madagascar) collaborated with Malagasy ethnomusicologist and musician Olombelo Ricky and three versatile performers to create a witty and intriguing exploration of dance, disease, and revolution.

PROGRAM

Post-show artist talkback January 20
Free artist lecture January 21 | 4pm
Digital stream also available

  • Friday-Saturday January 19-20, 2024 | 8pm + Sunday January 21, 2024 | 2pm

  • Scotiabank Dance Centre

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  • Tickets $37

  • 60 minutes

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Presented with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Choreographers: Simona Deaconescu & Gaby Saranouffi
Musician: Olombelo Ricky
Performers: Haja Saranouffi, Maria-Luiza Dimulescu, Simona Dabija
Mentor: Mathilde Monnier
Costumes: Cristia Milea
Video documentation: Simona Deaconescu, Kevin Deris, Carmen Tofeni
Video editing: Cristian Pascariu
Light design: Alexandros Raptis

Created following discussions with Olombelo Ricky, Michel Razafiarivony, Ray Amandreny Benoit Randrianasolo, Serge Henri Rodin, Domoina Ratsara, guide Sebastian

Based on accounts described by Andrew Davidson, William Ellis, Marc Finaz, Andrian Janfy, G.H. Stagg, Pierre de Vaissière

Co-produced by Tangaj Collective, CNDB – The National Center for Dance in Bucharest, Forecast Berlin

Co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund

Supported by I’TROTA International Dance Festival, Goethe-Institute Bucharest, Goethe-Zentrum Antananarivo, The French Institutes in Romania and Madagascar, The Romanian Cultural Institute, /SAC @ MALMAISON, Grizzly Film residencies – PACT Zollverein, IFM – The French Institute in Madagascar.

World premiere: 2022 at Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany.

Photos by Adi Bulboaca

 

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