Work in progress.
Premiere: October 7, 2025, at Points Communs - Nouvelle Scène Nationale de Cergy-Pontoise / Festival d'Automne in Paris

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Bruits Marrons is a creation inspired by the work Evil Nigger and reflections on the life of its composer, African-American musician Julius Eastman. Drawing on the concept of a quilombo (communities of marooned slaves, free and autonomous) and bringing it into contemporary contexts, the piece will gather one musician and five dancers (in addition to a large artistic and technical support team) to create an ephemeral community questioning resistance and solidarity through music that combines rage and beauty. The premiere will take place at the Festival d'Automne 2025.

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Choreography: Calixto Neto
Performance: Shereya, Andrège Bidiamambu, Stanley Ollivier, Isabela Fernandes Santana, Ndoho Ange
Musical direction and performance: Omar Gabriel Delnevo 
Choreographic Assistance: Carolina Campos
Set Design: Morgana Machado Marques

Costume design: Suelem de Oliveira da Silva.
Light design: Eduardo Abdala
Technical Direction: Marie Predour
Sound Management: Marie Mouslouhouddine
Production, Administration, and Distribution: Julie Le Gall
Executive Production: VOA

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Coproductions: Points communs, Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d'Oise; Festival d'Automne à Paris; CND - Centre national de la danse; Charleroi danse - Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles; Mille Plateaux, CCN La Rochelle; Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble dans le cadre de l'accueil-studio - ministère de la culture; Cndc - Angers dans le cadre de accueil-studio - ministère de la Culture

With the support of Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijlk), la Ménagerie de verre, Drac lle-de-France - ministère de la Culture dans le cadre du conventionnement et du mécénat de la Caisse des Dépôts.  Action financée par la Région Ile-de-France

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​TOUR DATES:

- Oct 7 & 8, 2025 // PREMIERE // Points communs, Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d'Oise as part of Festival d'Automne à Paris

- Oct 17 & 18, 2025 // Biennale de Charleroi Danse with Kaaitheater, Brussels

- Nov 19, 20, 21, 2025 // MC93 with CND and Festival d’Automne à Paris

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IMAGES: The first photo is by Rafael Frazão. The three followings are part of the action Balade avec Julius, where the book 52 Niggers by Stacy Hardy, featuring Julius Eastman's face on the cover, is placed in front of different landscapes. First image: in front of a photo by Jay Ramier (Juke Joint, 2021) exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo. Second image: in front of the statue of Zumbi dos Palmares (hero of Black resistance in Brazil and creator of the Quilombo dos Palmares) in Salvador de Bahia. Third image: in front of the statue of Toussaint Louverture, hero of the Haitian revolution, in Bordeaux, France.

Fourth image: a photo of Calixto Neto, onto whose body a photograph of Julius Eastman, taken by photographer Marbeth, is projected.