Created by Moya Michael, in collaboration with Victoire Karera Kampire, Simon
Thierrée, Joachim Ben Yakoub
Scenography: Špela Tušar, Moya Michael
Costume Design: Andrea Kränzlin
Video: Victoire Karera Kampire
Composer and Musician: Simon Thierée
Light Design: Ellie Bryce
Sound: Patrick Van Neck/Bram Moriau
Dramaturgy: Joachim Ben Yakoub
Stage Manager: Caroline Wagner
Production: Lise Bruynseels
International Management and Distribution: Cecilia Kuska and Sabine

Special thanks to: !Amace, Be and family, Xoma and Xhao, Nashilongwe Shipwe,
Jan de Villiers, Lindiwe Dlamini, Haymich Olivier, Jennifer Hays, Loren Davis Fisher, Igor Shyshko, Ife Day, Lassenne Vocale and to all the beautiful people we met along the way

Produced by KVS
Coproduction: WIELS, Perpodium, Bergen Kunsthall
With the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government Via
BNPPFFF

Moya Michael

Moya Michael is an acclaimed dancer, choreographer, performer, and mentor born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, and currently based in Brussels. A bold interdisciplinary artist, she blends movement, artistic research, visual art, and music to create layered live performances that explore ancestry, cultural lineage, identity, and collaboration across generations and cultures.

Moya has worked and performed with celebrated artists including Akram Khan, Gregory Maqoma, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet’s Eastman, Faustin Linyekula, David Hernandez, Mårten Spångberg, Keyon Gaskin, Sofiane and Selma Oiussi and Jin Xing. She continues to develop her own creative practice in Brussels, where she is one of the associated artists of KVS (The Royal Flemish Theatre) and maintains an ongoing artistic partnership that supports and amplifies her distinctive voice in the dance field.

Joachim Ben Yakoub
Joachim Ben Yakoub is a writer and teacher, sometimes also operating as curator and dramaturg, working on the border of different art schools and institutions. He spends most of his time in the Kitchen, a collective study and workspace in Brussels.

He is affiliated to the MENARG and S:PAM research group of Ghent University, where he is conducting research on the aesthetics of revolt somewhere in between Tunisia and Belgium and is also lecturer at Sint-Lucas School of Arts Antwerp.

Victoire Karera Kampire
Victoire Karera Kampire is a Belgian and Rwandan filmmaker, sound designer, and co-founder of the nomadic collective .contrapunctum. She holds a master’s degree in New Media and Society from the VUB and graduated in audiovisual arts from the LUCA School of Arts. At the heart of her artistic quest is the notion of absence permeating her films at the border of documentary and fiction, with ghostly presences. She. has just started writing her next film “Ejo”, produced by Graphoui, and is part of a residency program funded by Africalia.

Simon Thierrée
Born in 1980 Simon Thierrée is a Brussels-based composer, violinist, pianist, and orchestra conductor. He has to his credit more than 40 musical creations for stage performances and movies since 1996, in various styles and for instrumentation ranging from solos to symphony orchestras. He is part and cofounder of the composer’s collective NONE. He was selected as a French resident artist in Lebanon in 2021 and in Tunisia in 2022 by the Institut Français. He received the prize Wallonie- Bruxelles of the Proquartetto International Composition Competition for his string quartet Fantaisie en huit miniatures.