Since 2020, the Récif Karukera Ballet program has been supporting choreographic companies through its choreographic hub, offering creative residencies as well as artistic, logistical, and financial support for Caribbean, national, and international artists.
Through this theme, we seek to explore via dance what is shaping the body today: visible and invisible legacies, tensions between memory and the present, between the center and the margins, between discipline and excess. Contemporary choreography is, above all, a space of reflection, because it places the body at the heart of thought.
We invite you to think with the body, through movement, through ruptures, imbalances, and collisions.
Local fractures (environmental, postcolonial, social) echo those from elsewhere: migrations, ecological breakdowns, political bodies to be reinvented.
What we are looking for are gestures that question our times. Unruly forms. Writings of uncertainty. Dances that pursue not beauty, but necessity. Choreographies as acts of speech. Languages in the making born out of complexity, friction, and presence.
We launch this artistic call as one casts a rope into the unknown, hoping it will catch onto another body, another thought, another imbalance.
Location of the residencies
Karukera Ballet
Rue Euvremont Gene Bergevin
97110 Pointe-A-Pitre
GUADELOUPE
Projet soutenu par la DAC Guadeloupe et la Préfecture de Guadeloupe, la DAC MARTINIQUE et la Préfecture de Martinique, le Ministère des Outre-mer, la Région Guadeloupe et la ville de Pointe-à-Pitre, et en collaboration avec le Trois-CL Luxembourg | Maison pour la danse.
