Josué Mugisha

Josué Mugisha is a Burundian director and choreographer. After studying performing arts in South Africa, he developed an artistic practice grounded in imagery and choreographic language as a way of evading censorship. He then continued his training in directing techniques at the Labo ELAN of the Récréâtrales (Burkina Faso), in Central African dance techniques and the Acogny technique at École des Sables (Senegal), and at Serge Aimé Coulibaly’s Ankata Centre. He is currently developing a project focused on translating into writing the techniques invented during experimental sessions conducted with his company across Africa and Europe. He has directed around ten theatre and dance works, including Les rassérénées and La première danse politique, a finalist in the Danse élargie programme at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. He has also worked as an actor and dancer in several productions, including Plaidoirie pour vendre le Congo by Aristide Tarnagda and East African Boléro by Wesley Ruzibiza.

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MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis
octoberoct 22 – 23

Josué Mugisha
La deuxième danse politique

Portrait Mosaïque — Ce qui traverse les corpsDance

Josué Mugisha conjures up the idea of artists interrupting the piece as it is being performed in order to demand what its “meaning” is. In the absence of the author, they address the audience by means of dance, poetry, and the imagination. In the political context of Burundi, in which freedom of speech is muzzled and the "tambourinaire" drum player censured, the choreographer and theatre director brings to the stage, after La première danse politique, a second piece, a metaphor for "killing the drum”, a symbol of power. In the midst of a deluge of poetic images, the performers sabotage the representation and turn it into a place of insubordination.