Soirée Rhizome #Festival Artdanthé : Eli Mathieu-Bustos - Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust

A new partnership has emerged this season between the Wallonia-Brussels Centre and the Artdanthé Festival, centered around a shared evening showcasing two unique choreographic works: Eli Mathieu-Bustos's Have A Safe Travel and Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust's Dressing. This collaboration extends a dialogue that has been ongoing for several years with the Théâtre de Vanves.

For its 28th edition, from March 10 to April 3, 2026, the Artdanthé festival confirms its status as one of the major events for contemporary choreographic creation. This year, the program will bring together nearly 30 shows presented by companies from 13 countries. Among them are around ten co-productions from the Théâtre de Vanves and projects developed in residence, as well as 8 new creations and 7 French premieres.

HAVE A SAFE TRAVEL
Eli Mathieu-Bustos
[Duration: 60 min]

Have A Safe Travel tells the story of a train journey. An ordinary trip, until three police officers stop Eli Mathieu-Bustos and subject him to his first racial profiling. Immersed in the memory of this event, both banal and violent, the audience discovers the inner workings of an oppressive system.

In this debut solo, the choreographer transforms the systemic violence he has endured into powerful and sensitive performative material, developed using the De Caelo technique, a method he himself conceptualized. This unique approach brings improvisation, emotional intelligence, and astrological tools into dialogue to explore how the heavens and their charts can inform our bodies and our paths.

A solo that is both intimate and political, where gesture becomes an act of resistance.

DRESSING
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust – DDDMM Company
[Duration: 35/40 min]

In Dressing, the act of dressing becomes a performative ritual. Through the accumulation of clothing and accessories, bodies are transformed, altered, and reinvented. The costume, far from being a mere ornament, guides movement, modifies postures, and engenders new presences.

Between a desire for belonging and an assertion of individuality, the performers construct and deconstruct their silhouettes, revealing unstable, hybrid figures in perpetual flux. A disturbing and poetic parade then emerges, questioning our multiple and shifting identities.

Translated automatically - see original description in French
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