A few emblematic creations by Kettly Noël punctuate the repertoire of her career as a dancer, choreographer and performer. Here are a few :

Zombification

A visual dive into the darkness of memory, mixing the woads, the voodoo loas of death, with the sonderkommandos of Ebola, evoking pell-mell slavery, lynchings, death camps, the Cambodian "killing fields" or Rwandans, past or future massacres and the darkest faces of our history,

Zombification refers to images that constantly haunt the minds of contemporary man and prevent a more modern vision from being conceived. In an incessant and absurd ballet of dehumanized bodies served by "croque mort", an impossible project that reconciles Haitian surrealism and contemporary art, a woman, like Orpheus reincarnated, tries to survive among the corpses of our illusions.

Zombification, meaning the obliteration of all consciousness and free will, is global.

Excerpts from Zombification, a creation by Kettly Noël for Documenta 14 - Odeon, Athens Conservatory April 6 (rehearsal), 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12, 2017.

Scenography and artistic direction: Michel Meyer

Crooked performers: Ioanna Aggelopoulo, Matina Kokolaki, Ibrahim Camara, Leonce Noah Konnan Allui, Sanga Ouatara.

Music: Hugo Maillet

Lighting: Samuel Dosière

Video par leWonderlab

Camera & editing: Michel Meyer

© leWonderlab - Kettly Noël/Donko Seko

My name is Fanta Kaba

Fanta Kaba, already a whole character just by name. His wandering in the city, Bamako perhaps, his body winding with the music and the lights, diluting itself in secret phantasmagoria. Her quest for an elsewhere, for a party, for a metamorphosis, for an adventure, for a man, which would upset her reality. Kettly Noël transposes to the stage this "confusion of bodies, from the woman to the dancer, from the dancer to the performer, from the performer to the character, from the character to the transformation, from the transformation to the performance", according to his words, inspired by the transgressive universe of bars and nightclubs, in the form of an "intimate story that probes the relationship between women and the fantasies they arouse". Fanta Kaba is no longer afraid of dark forces, of the breach opened in the day-to-day world, of loneliness, of revolt, of the urgency to survive. M Marie-Mai Corbel / extra-11 / Bonlieu - Annecy National Stage

Excerpt from My name is Fanta Kaba

Art festival Weimar E-Werk 02/09/2020

Author, Choreographer, Performer: Kettly Noël

Advice, Art Direction and video: Michel Meyer

Lighting: Florent Blanchon

Costumes : Sahar Millinery

©2020 Michel Meyer / Donko Seko