Soa Ratsifandrihana & Bonnie Banane - Quelle Aurore

Bonnie Banane and Soa Ratsifandrihana meet on stage for the first time in a piece caught between fantasy and reality. In a world saturated with images, commands and shocks, a world in which the present seems trapped in an endless loop, they are driven by the desire to remain standing. On conveyor belts on stage – symbols of waiting, wandering, movement without destination – they move forward in order not to succumb.  

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Oscillating between dawn (aurore) and horror, the performers explore what Samah Karaki calls psychic numbness: a form of emotional anaesthesia in the face of a world full of crises, where our defence mechanisms take the form of memes, absurd satires, digital and sensory excesses. Trapped in a spiral of doomscrolling, afflicted by brainrot, they try to fight an omnipresent cynicism with magic, candour and sincerity.  

With an aesthetic borrowed from the most sparkling pop culture (think Fun Radio, Sailor Moon, bubblegum), Quelle Aurore is an unstable and mutating universe, where the apparent glamour and lightness mask deep tensions. 

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. 

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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.  

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Credits on the website of Kaaitheater