The Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis showcases some of the best contemporary choreographers and dancers from across the globe. This year, the festival has invited Scotland-based artist Solène Weinachter for a residency, performances, and workshops with local communities and artists, around her new work After All.
After all is a celebration of our vulnerable and courageous existence. Solène Weinachter melds dance, comedy, storytelling, and theatre to ask – what happens in the end? Through a series of impassioned re-enactments of the funerals of those she’s loved – as well as imagining her own – Solène attempts to conjure a better space to be with death, dying, and loss. After all is a heartfelt exploration of the death rituals we have; the ones lost and those that need to be invented. Joyously bringing us together to explore the role that dancing might play in healing.
The work will be adapted to French audiences through workshops with local communities and will also include conversations with dance artists around safeguarding in creative practices.
22 - 23 May 2024 in Metz during the Passages Transfestival.
28 - 29 May 2024 at La Chaufferie, 10 BIS Rue Maurice Thorez, 93200 Saint-Denis
