Potomitan Dance

rue du Port du Four, salle du carré d'argent

Ported by a single impulse, Potomitan Cie Skanda begins a dance that is both powerful and fragile. Their bodies support, fall, and defy gravity in an atmosphere threaded with breaths and words. Each gesture becomes a narrative, that of the women called Potomitan in Creole, these mothers “pillars” who carry the family with strength and resilience. In an electro-acoustic atmosphere, the trio exults to the intoxication of liberation. Nourished by its Guadeloupean roots, the chore…