LE MANIFESTE 2008
International gathering for a motivated Theater
Antoine Pickels
has been working in the cultural sector since the early 80’s, firstly in the field of plastic arts, and then as a screenwriter (including an original script) and as an experimental filmmaker. He has also been a part of the contempory dance movement in Belgium, as playwright, lighting engineer, scenographer (can't find this word in the dictionary) or associate director. Since 1992, he has written for the theatre, sometimes himself taking on the direction. Furthermore he has written on stage art and on the questions of society and aesthetics. Most notably he is the author of “Un goût exquis. Essai de pédesthétique” (Ed. Cercle d’Art, col.Ah). In 2004 he created “In Nomine” at the Varia Theatre in Brussels. The piece, which received the Theatre Prize for best author awarded by the Belgian press and was produced by Hayez and Lansman, went on to be staged in Paris, Avignon, Tours and again in Brussels. From January 2004 to June 2005, he was also co-ordinator and in charge of the programming of stage art at the Halles in Schaerbeek. He continues to supervise various European festivals and projects. Since June 2007 he has headed the Bellone Theatre House in Brussels, a centre dedicated to stage art.
Sandrine Verstavel
She is President for the last four years of the Lille "Lesbian and Gay Pride" (Execution and coordination of a cultural festival, animation and coordination of a commission for poiltical work). She is also President of "Coordination Interpride France" since 2006, National Federation of "Marches des Fiertés" (Pride Marches) in France and President of the "Maison des Associations" (Centre for Associations) in Roubaix since 2007. She is the Head of "Egide" : regional centre for lesbian, gay, bi and trans associations since January 2008. Humanitarian experience in Ramallah, Palestine in 2003, as French and sports teacher. Militant community involment with regard to questions of sexual orientation and gender identity for the last ten years.
Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe
Originating from Kinshasa, Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe enjoys breaking down boundaries and blurring the lines. Curious and eager, the artists travels from one universe to the next, from plastic arts to dance. She invites us into a world where we can reinvent ourselves. Her universe of creation rests upon a framework made up sometimes by the spirit of insects and animals, sometimes by the sole presence of puppets that come to life in a disturbing atmosphere, worthy of the world of tales. Influenced by the practice of traditional Guinean, Senegalese (Sabar), Afro-Cuban (Yoruba, Congo Arara) and contemporary dance, she founded “Kadencée”, an association of African dance in 1998, in which she developed particular relationship between dance, theatre, and percussion, and then in 2005, the company of contemporary “Dixit” dance.
Colette Braeckman
Colette Braeckman is a Belgian journalist, a member of the editorial team of the francophone Belgian Newspaper "Le Soir ". She is charged with African and more precisely, Central African current affairs. As a columnist in reviews and magazines, including "Le Monde Diplomatic" her work has been largely used by the association "Survie".
By Editions Fayard: Le dinosaure, le Zaire de Mobutu, Rwanda, histoire d'un génocide, 1994, Congo, Rwanda-Burundi: les racines de la violence, 1996, Terreur Africaine, 1999, Les Nouveaux Prédatuers 2003
By Editions Adens:
Lumumba, un crime d'Etat
By Editions Complexe (collective works):
Kabila prend le pouvoir, Les prémices d'une chute - La campagne Victorieuse de l'AFDL - Le Congo aujourd'hui -
La Guerre, enfants admis, 300 000 enfants soldats dans le monde: comment combattre ce fléau?
Brigitte Mounier
After having followed the teachings of the Ecole Supérieure of the National Theatre of Strasbourg, under the direction of Jean-Pierre Vincent, she has played in Paris at the National Odéon Theatre, at the National Colline Theatre, at the “Comédie des Champs Elysées”, in Beaubourg, at the side of Bénichou, André Engel, Hélène Vincent, André Brassard and others, as well as in the decentralisation movement. She took a break of several years in order to join the Jean Richard Circus in an aerial acrobatic act. It was much later that she moved to Dunkerque and decided to set up, in 1996, the Northern Seas Theatre Company ( La Compagnie des Mers du Nord), for which she produces a repertory of deliberately comtempory writings, which drives her always to the edges where man runs up against a politically or geographically restraining environment.
Nadège de Kersabiec
Musically trained at the “Maîtrise de Radio France”, having graduated in Song and golden medal winner for choir direction at the National Conservatory of Lille, she has sung under the direction of Rachid Safir, Michel Piquemal and with the “Deller Consort” directed by Mark Deller. Since 1996 she has directed numerous choirs in the Parisian and Northern Callais regions. She created and directs the Childrens’ Choir of Montreuil and the vocal ensemble Ecco Voces (Lille).
Dorcy Rugamba
In1976 Dory integrates into his father's ballet, "Amasimbi n'Amakombe", newly created by the latter. What attracts him to it is the dance of the warrior "Intor". In 1991 he completes his first tour as artist with the ballet in Switzerland and in Belgium. Fleeing Rwanda in 1994, Dorcy had contributed to the project "Rwanda '94" since 1999, as co-author and comedian. In 1995, he publishes "Morembo" , in the name of his mother, killed during the genocide and joins the troupe of Peter Brooks ( Turno Bokar). One thing leads to another and "Urwintore" the theatre collective , born of Dorcy Rugamba's initiative enthusedby this meeting with Peter Broks, takes form.
The team works in true mercenary style, at the speed of a marathon. It's about producing the piece "l'Instruction" by Peter Weis, the recital of Jewish genocide, by a team of Rwandans. Two days in Kigali, ten in Brussels, are the prize for innumerable efforts.
Jaques Delcuvellerie
French, living in Belgium, producer at the Royal Conservatory in Liège, Jacque Delcuvellerie founded in 1980 "Groupov" a multi-disciplined collective of artists, a company having the willingness to be an experimental theatre. In the 90's he developed the "Projet Véité" (Truth Project), a triptychconsisting of "Traxh"by Marie-France Collard, " L'Annonce fait à Marie" by Claudel and " La Mère" by Brecht. The common point in all these texts being the emphasis on beleif experienced as a truth capable of mobilising a person untill death. Presented for the first time in Avignon in 1999, Jacques Delcuvellerie created "Rwanda 1999", on which he worked for four years, the production bringing together "le Groupov" with literary and filmographic techniques. The work would be generally praised by critics and public alike. His new creation shown in Avignon is entitled " Anathème".
François Brune
In reality, Brune Hongre, born in 1940, is a professor and French writer,a graduate of the " HEC ", and graduate of arts he chose his pseudonym more than 30 years ago to mark his independant work as writer, and distinguish it from his published didactic works under his own name. His signature, Françis Burme first appeared on "Combat", then the review "Esprit", then "Le Monde diplomatique " ( the father, François Brune, his homonym, had not yet been published.)
He collaborated on the journal " Le Monde diplomatique" and "La Déroissance", as well as on the magazine "Casseurs de pub". In 1992 he established "Résistance à l'aggression publicitaire" ( Resistance against advert aggression) with Yvan Grandis and René Macaire. He is known for his numerous books criticizing advertising.
"Médiatiquement correct!" Paragon Editions 2004
"L'Arbre migrateur et autres fables contretemps" Paragon 2005
"Les Pèlerins d'Halicarnasse, aventure philosophique" in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Alain Faye, L'Harmattan 2007.
Jean-Maurice Boudeulle
It was firstly interventionist theatre, which he discovered, in 1969, with Benoît Vitse, and that he practised collectively, most notably with the Printemps Theatre, as well as with syndicates, groups and parties, that appealed to Jean-Maurice Boudeulle up until the early 1980’s. It is as much his first theatrical productions in the Hemois district - as animator of the suburb - as the reflux of the social movement that made him renew the ties with the theatre of actors and texts. In 1983 he would become municipal theatre animator in Hemois. In 1986, he would create “The Adventure”, then in 1989, the Company. Motivated by the demand by comedians, children and adults, amateurs and professionals, of the Adventure or elsewhere, he continues to interrogate theatre, in its forms and in its texts, in its relations with the life of the city, by staging collages, adaptions of literary or dramatical texts, his own works (often drawn from actors' suggestions) or even works from repertory.
Pierre Boudeulle
A child of “The Adventure”! He directs, produces and writes the plays of the “ Chapeaux d’roues” company, most notably “Ubu Roi”, and recently “The Very Lamentable Comedy”. During his formation as an actor at the Mons Conservatory in Belgium, he worked the choreography of the body and text as a rhythmically scored song. He trained in the aspects of arts of the clown and in the mask with Guy Ramet, old master of shadows, nourished by, amongst others Barba and Grotowsky, exacting the essence and fury of theatre, working the radiant presence and gesture of the actor. As a member of Maravila Bravo, an all locations theatre company, he has been researching for the past four years the emergence of an original format without words that attempts to touch everybody everywhere, creating a transversal language drawn from the clown, comedy, dance, and scat , the sonorous chorus, the monotonous chant for the voice. He created and directs the Cie Bakanal, which welcomes his current -“The Dream of a Summers’ Night”- and forthcoming productions. He is a producer, comedian, writer and musician (saxophone, piano, percussion, and slam-rap).
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