Alphonse, a 28-year-old queer Sagittarius, was born in Minsk to a Rwandan mother and a Togolese father. Based in Brussels, they are a model, performer, and director whose work uses the body as a tool, writing as a weapon of resurrection, and performance as a site of political urgency. Their practice seeks to disrupt representational norms and reconfigure the relationship between performers and spectators by unsettling conventional performance spaces. In reste(s), the first part of their triptych, Alphonse explores transgenerational trauma, invisible memory, and colonial transmissions in a solo performance dedicated to their uncle, Alphonse Kanimba, who was killed during the Tutsi genocide in April 1994. They are now developing the second part of the triptych, investigating migratory inheritances and the silences imposed on diasporic identities. Through a fusion of traditional and contemporary movement, the languages of their family, and archival documents as witnesses to erasure and resistance, they examine the fractures and reinventions shaped by displacement.
Production
Function
Dance