Mon corps est le kala pani
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Mon corps est le kala pani , Kama La Mackerel' s interdisciplinary show, features a poetic score through movement, dance, ritual, voice, song and spoken-word.
Kala pani means "black ocean" and refers to the loss of humanity suffered by indentured laborers who were forced to leave the sacred river Ganges to cross the ocean to plantation islands in the 19th century. In this intimate solo, the artist explores the figure of the kala pani as a metaphor, a poetic gesture, an ancestral narrative and a possibility for healing colonial pasts. With the initiatory tales of a transgender child growing up in the plantation context of Mauritius in the 80s and 90s at the center of its narrative, Mon corps est le kala pani is both a personal and political performance, where the French language becomes creolized, queer voices emerge and hybrid aesthetics manifest themselves on stage.
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