Quelle Aurore

On treadmills, Bonnie Banane and Soa Ratsifandrihana transform themselves between fantasy and reality, carried by an emotional machine where the heart and body attempt to make a wish. This wish is to remain sensitive in a world where the present seems trapped in an infinite loop.

In this accelerationist burlesque, they resist emotional anaesthesia and the prevailing cynicism, continuing to search for a horizon.

• Soa Ratsifandrihana (1994) studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris and has collaborated with artists such as James Thiérrée, Salia Sanou and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In 2021, she created her first solo, g r oo v e, followed by a diptych consisting of the radio creation Rouge cratère, awarded at the Paris podcast festival, and the performance Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna in 2024. She is currently artist in residence at Kaaitheater (2023-2025) and will become artist in residence at Charleroi danse in September 2026. In 2025, she founded the Kintana company in Brussels. Her work explores the authenticity of identities and diaspora through a body language guided by groove, displacement and improvisation. Her choreographies express multiple heritages and time periods, embracing hybridity and contradictions, joy and doubt, playfulness and seriousness. 

• Bonnie Banane is a singer-songwriter and composer, born in Brittany in 1987. Since her first single, “Muscles”, in 2012, she has been criss-crossing the French music scene, always looking for ways to blur the boundaries between genres. She is inspired by her surroundings, her own story and that of others, the surrealist poetry of Brigitte Fontaine and the gospel of D'Angelo. Trained in dramatic arts, she has also appeared as an actress in films by Bertrand Mandico and Bertrand Bonello. This theatricality, somewhere between the exuberance of a clown and the dignity of a mourner, accompanies her in her songs and on stage.