Forgotten by history, Sanite Bélair (1781-1802) returns from the dead to haunt us. A sergeant, then a lieutenant in the Haitian revolutionary army, she was captured by French settlers and then shot at just 21, just a year before the final battle that would lead to independence. In Dust Opera, this resistant decides to take revenge on the failing memory of men. She launched the #HéroïneEnColère movement on social networks to claim her place in great history, among the “fathers” of the homeland.
Jean D’Amérique alternates lyrical and everyday scenes to link the world of dust to that of today, attempting to repair the oversights of the past. It makes Sanite Bélair a new model of resistance against all forms of oppression and domination. A choral text, powerful and poetic, full of energy and humor, which mixes voodoo mythology and digital universe.
Directed by Armel Roussel, assisted by Iris Laurent (EdN – École du Nord). Read by Sachernka Anacassis, Wilda Philippe, Guy Régis Junior and students from the Ecole du Nord (Jade Crespy, Fantine Gelu, Ambre Germain-Cartron, Loan Hermant, Mohammed Louridi, Chloé Monteiro, Miya Pechillon, Charles Tuyizere).
Musical creation: Pierre-Alexandre Lampert.
John of America
Jean D’Amérique was born in Haiti in 1994. Poet, slammer, he has published several collections with Cheyne, including silent workshop (Apollinaire Discovery Prize), and Red Rhapsody (Fetkann! Maryse Condé Poetry Prize). At the theatre, opera dustwinner of the 2021 RFI Theater Prize, is his second text after Cathedral of the pigs, which was performed this year on several French stages. In 2021 he published his first novel sewing sun at Actes Sud, which tells the story of a young girl Tête Cêlée, in a slum of Port-au-Prince (Dubreuil SGDL Prize for the first novel and Montluc Resistance and Freedom Prize).
Alright everyone!
The It’s okay, it’s okay world! is designed and coordinated by Pascal Paradou and directed by the director Armel Roussel, with the collaboration of the École du Nord (EdN), a professional school of dramatic art directed by David Bobée. It is co-produced by RFI and the company [e]utopia, with the support of the SACD for its radio cultural action, Wallonia-Brussels International and the French Institute.
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Broadcast
Presented by: Pascal Paradou.
Direction and sound recording: Jérémie Besset and Thibault Baduel.
Technical coordination: Benjamin Avayou
On-line
Writing and coordination on rfi.fr: Siegfried Forster (in collaboration with Sonia Borelva).
Photos: Pascal Gély.
Videos: Dominique Fiant, Romain Ferré.
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