On Decolonial Ground

Audio documentary

©Crédit photo : Charlotte Imbault

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2025

Septembre##September

20Festival CAP DanseCONCARNEAUFrance

The audio documentary, On Decolonial Ground, is an extension of Betty Tchomanga’s choreographic series, Decolonial (Hi)stories. This gathers a multitude of voices—those of artists, teenagers, and teachers recorded over the course of a year in various middle and high schools in France—as it approaches the artistic field as a site of learning and emancipation. The testimonies collected here are put in dialogue with writings by authors such as bell hooks and Léonora Miano, the political scientist Malcom Ferdinand, the education researcher Francine Nyambek-Mebenga, and the sociologist Fabrice Dhume. The documentary draws connections between artistic and pedagogical discourses to question what schools can achieve and what art enables us to do. What does it mean to learn in a decolonial context? How can we learn? The voices express and analyze forms of decolonial thinking from the perspectives of art and education.

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A work byCharlotte Imbault - Invitation by Betty Tchomanga

With the active participation ofMarine Philippon, Betty Tchomanga, Idyahia Abdellah, Laurie Fontaine, Mulunesh Adélaïde, Folly Romain, Stéphane Monteiro, Patricia Kerdraon, Dalila Khatir, Emma Tricard, Hélène Kérébel, Marion Cachan

And contributions fromManel Ben Boubaker, Francine Nyambek-Mebenga, Fabrice Dhume, Maliga Tony-Nyemb

And appearances byHéloïse Corbier, Clara Gauduchon, Marie Donaghy, Erell Pasco, Fernanda De Andrade, Morgane Madec, Lilian Corme, Violette Cazalis de Fondouce, Lyla Janssens, Jawel Dra, Teïla Douguet, Julsia Siassia, Sandra Drenovac, Dheva Raka, Maëlle Abdallah, Bercem Beyge and the students in Laurie Fontaine's class

Thanks toLydia Amarouche and the publisher Shed Publishing, as well as to Jérémy Mazeron and the Vanves Theater

Literary referencesTeaching to Transgress by bell hooks, Ce qu’il faut dire by Léonora Miano, The Murderous Identities by Amin Maalouf, Décolonisons-nous by Frank Lao, and Entrer en pédagogie antiraciste (anthology)

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