In the organizer's words:

KIZAZI (Swahili for uterus) is the first solo work by choreographer and performer Stéphanie Mwamba. What does it mean to grow up as a woman in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a region where the female body has been an oppressed territory, a combat zone, for more than 15 years? With her dance, she reclaims the sovereignty of interpretation over her body: between improvisation and choreography, she creates organic, powerful movements that weave themselves into a political act of emancipation.

Artistic direction & performance: Stéphanie Mwamba

External consulting: Abdoulaye Trésor Konate, Nadia Beugré, Virginie Dupray

Music: Skill Sawasawa

Production: cie Ochula, Libr'Arts / Virginie Dupray, assisted by Noura Soumahoro

With the support of: École des Sables - Toubab Dialaw, Amizero Company - Kigali, French Embassy in Côte d'Ivoire, Institut français de Côte d'Ivoire

Stéphanie Mwamba is a choreographer, performer and actress born in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2015, she began training in contemporary and traditional dance at the city's Foyer Culturel and subsequently founded her own dance company, Ochula, in Minova on Lake Kivu. As a performer, she took part in the revival of Pina Bausch's Sacre du Printemps alongside around 30 dancers from 14 different African countries, who trained at the École des Sables in Senegal, and has toured internationally with the piece.

In 2019, she founded the Ochula Center, a place for training, research and education in the field of traditional and contemporary dance in Minova in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shaped by the various conflicts and rebel movements that have plagued the DR Congo over the past 20 years and forced to leave Kasai with her family, Stéphanie Mwamba finds a way to reconnect with her culture through dance. Her choreographic work is rooted in traditional dances, which she explores and confronts with contemporary techniques in order to question memory and transmission.

- Price: 14,00 / 7,00 EUR. A Humboldt Forum is required.

- Ethnological Museum 2nd floor, room 216 Colonial Cameroon

- from 6 years

- Belongs to: Transcontinental 2025