© Thaïs Breton
performative installation
Après la mémoire
Nadia Ratsimandresy
Rangalanga Tsilaitry Mboangy
free admission
initiation ceremonies — booking required
- Dates
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From Sat, 19 Sep 2026
to Sun, 20 Sep 2026
opening hours — 2pm–6pm
initiation ceremonies — Sat. 19 Sept, 2pm | Sun. 20 Sept, 2pm
initiation ceremonies — Sat. 19 Sept, 2pm | Sun. 20 Sept, 2pm
Après la mémoire emerged from the two artists’ journey to Madagascar and from the realization of their fundamentally different relationships to what is supposed to be their country of origin. In a suspended space, like an antechamber to hell, past, present and aspirations merge as bodies and memories strive to negotiate the contradictory forces that shape them: integration and uprooting, remembrance and forgetting, loss and self-reinvention. The audience is invited into their initiation ceremony, an unclassifiable sonic and visual form that unfolds as an attempt at identity reconciliation, challenging our perceptions and unsettling preconceived ideas.
Program
Après la mémoire
concept, direction Nadia Ratsimandresy, Rangalanga Tsilaitry Mboangy
dramaturgy Simon Hatab
stage direction support on diasporic identities Prisca Ratovonasy
set design Arthur Grandjean
construction Clément Netzer
lighting design Abigail Fowler, Clara Boulis-Valence
design sonore Rémi Georges
performance collaboration Didier Manuel
collaboration à la médiation Florian Rosinski
Cast
music, performance Nadia Ratsimandresy, Rangalanga Tsilaitry Mboangy
stage management Nicolas Pierre
production — ANA Compagnie, Full Rhizome, La Permanence Poétique
co-production — Musica, Abbaye de Royaumont, CNCM Athénor, Hexagone de Meylan, GRAME – CNCM (Lyon), Scènes croisées de Lozère
with the support of DRAC Occitanie, Sacem, Spedidam, DGCA/Sacem, Maison de la Musique Contemporaine.
Après la mémoire is the recipient of the 2025 Arts and Sciences Residency Programme launched by Fondation Royaumont, Athénor and Hexagone.