I would not say that Cocteau tailor-made this proverb for Sabine Pakora, but it reminds me of the crossing of this actress in the profession so tender, which is that of the theater. With La freak, diary of a voodoo woman, text that she writes, plays and directs at the Théâtre de la Reine Blanche in Paris, Pakora continues her reflection (begun with the work Black is not my job) to track down the colonial imaginary projected onto her Sabine body. A woman’s body, black and round. Telling yourself, to move from the status of object to that of subject, is the whole swaying gait of a chrysalis that could one day become… Cinderella.
Sabine Pakora’s musical choices
Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Ernesto Djedje Ziboté