How can you be an artist and not reflect the Time?Nina Simone
With Le Silence,Antoinette Gomis presents a deeply felt tribute to her origins. For thirty years, her father, Ibrahima Gomis, worked on the assembly line in a Renault factory in France. After his hard day's work, he returned to a district of social housing that would eventually be labelled a ghetto. This story, which resonates with many young refugees, inspired the choreographer to lovingly call her father 'the traveller' in her latest work Le Silence.
This piece is part of a diptych, of which Les Ombres enchanted the audience in the Red Hall with breakdance during the first edition of BLUEPRINT. In Le Silence Gomis integrates the essential styles of hip-hop: breakdance, house, and krump, with which she presents a powerful follow-up to her story of cultural identity and resilience