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.
On Jun 06 | 22:00: Concert TEll A ViSiON (Free entrance)
Mackenzy Bergile is a French-Haitian interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, pianist, poet and researcher whose practice explores issues of memory, domination and transmission through body and gesture. Trained in Haitian traditional, Afro-American and contemporary dances, classical music and visual arts, he has developed a body of work that lies at the intersection of performance, theoretical research and postcolonial criticism. Through immersive and performative devices, he explores diasporic bodies as places of memory, political inscription and imaginary counter-power. He also publishes on Regard sur le Geste articles on the choreopolitical implications of living art and writing from the margins.
