Dorothée Munyaneza
Multidisciplinary Artist, Rwanda & United Kingdom
Dorothée Munyaneza is Rwandan and British based in Marseille. A multidisciplinary artist, Dorothée Munyaneza employs music, song, text and movement whilst drawing from reality to deal with memory and rupture as a dynamic force. In 2006 she meets François Verret. They collaborate on Sans retour, Ice, Cabaret, and Do you remember, no I don’t.
Today, Dorothée Munyaneza works with artists such as Alain Mahé, Stéphanie Coudert, Ko Murobushi, Rachid Ouramdane, Maya Mihindou, Alain Buffard and Ben Lamar Gay. In 2013 she creates her artistic company, Compagnie Kadidi. The works include Samedi Détente, Unwanted and Mailles.
Dorothée Munyaneza is Artist Associate at the Théâtre de la Ville-Paris.
Du auch
"I was born in Göttingen.
On my birth record, I was assigned Runda, my father's place of birth.
Since the administrative reform of 2006, Runda is no more.
Today, this birthplace is called Kamonyi-Muhanga.
I was in Kigali for the first time when I was two and a half years old.
Mama, Sie sind alle schwarz!
Du auch mein Kind, du auch!
Beyond seas, between ochre and nacre, I trace the lines of the multitudes that I am, skin and moult, always in motion, this gives strength and momentum. In these places of multiple births, deaths and resurgences, I dare the possible."
Dorothée Munyaneza
Dorothée Munyaneza's artistic project is built around inter-city, inter-urban and inter-generational links in the territory of Marseille. Her work, which began in 2019 draws on the real issues of social and economic insecurity and problems related to gender and public space. A long term work was necessary to create bonds of trust and guarantee the involvement of the inhabitants of the city as well as to respect their freedom of speech.
During her residency at the Camargo Foundation, Dorothée Munyeneza wishes to create a common work space in which she would invite both her artistic collaborators and the inhabitants of the Cité La Castellane. Welcoming them to a space dedicated to research and creation, will position the women of La Castellane as artistic collaborators as well.