Autothérapie

At once a choreographer, musician, poet and researcher, Mackenzy Bergile is an interdisciplinary Franco-Haitian artist. In Autothérapie, he embarks on a body exploration between memory and the present. Through a series of fragmented “sessions”, an intense dialogue with history and identity unfolds: what is stored in the body begins to speak.

Drawing on Haitian Spiralism – a poetic and political philosophy that understands history as cyclical and polyphonic – Mackenzy Bergile traces a geography of memories, traumas, and cultural references across three continents: from the forced displacement of around 12 million African people through the transatlantic slave trade, to the Haitian Revolution and the Jim Crow laws in the United States, and into contemporary Europe. The body becomes an archive – and the starting point for a careful reorientation. 

With French/English texts and English surtitles.

After the performance: Talk with the artist

On Jun 06 | 22:00: Concert TEll A ViSiON (Free entrance)