Administration, production and distribution

LA MANGROVE

Created in 2007, the company identifies with a fragile ecosystem where one can become lost and liberated—a “Tout-monde” (Édouard Glissant) where roots intertwine and adapt, allowing for possible openings and necessary escapes. Influenced by poetry and mythology, by history and the evolution of society, Hubert Petit-Phar explores themes of resilience and identity in each of his works. The relationship between Human(s) and Territory(ies), flows and memory, lies at the heart of his creative process. 

“Aesthetic, political, symbolic borders”: the choreographer questions the concept of borders—centrality, polycentrism, distance, and porosity—with a key focus on the urgency of collectively fighting against all forms of withdrawal, especially identity-based ones.

LINKS

-> Website

-> Video

-> Instagram

CORPOS

Hubert Petit-Phar & Augusto Soledade

SYNOPSIS

Bringing together artists from Brazil and Guadeloupe (French West Indies), Corpos examines the black ‘masculine’ to liberate human creativity.

Corpos is an encounter based on a common exploration: ‘the stigmatisation of the black body, the body as a political tool’. Corpos was created by Hubert Petit-Phar, a Guadeloupean, and Augusto Soledade, a choreographer from Bahia, accompanied by three dancers from Bahia and one from Guadeloupe. For Hubret Petit-Phar, Corpos was born out of ‘the desire to discuss the issue of physical and sexual representation with Brazilian artists’ and to explore the singularity of their bodies at the crossroads of their cultures and multiple identities. By questioning the black ‘masculine’, the joint work of these two choreographers revisits today's cultural métissage between islanders and mainlanders, West Indians and Brazilians. ‘A way of transforming constrained physical, emotional and psychological spaces into a source of inspiration and imagination, an opportunity to unleash human creativity’ (Augusto Soledade).

DISTRIBUTION

Concept, choreography : Hubert Petit-Phar, Augusto Soledade

Dancers : Sebastião Abreu, Alex Lago, Hiago Ruan, Mickaël Top

Musical creation : Anthony Rouchier

Lighting design : Gérard Laffuste  

Styling : Alex Lago, Denny Neves, Clara Niglio and Irys Oliveira

 

PARTNERS

Production : Compagnie La Mangrove

Coproduction : Théâtre Vila Velha in Brazil, L'Artchipel - Scène nationale de Guadeloupe, Centre Culturel de Sonis in Guadeloupe, CDCN Touka Danses Guyane, CCN de Tours / Thomas Lebrun  

Partners : Dispositif Récif - Karukera Ballet. Institut Français, SCAC Recife, Festival international Viva Dança, La Factory // Théâtre de l'Oulle - L'autre scène permanente d'Avignon, Ville de Pantin.  With the collaboration of Moka Production.

La Mangrove is supported by the Cultural Affairs Department of Guadeloupe, Region and cultural Department of Guadeloupe.  

CALENDAR

  • 18/04/2024 : PREMIERE, Festival Dansez-Croisez, CCN Tours – FR

  • 24/05/24 : L’embarcadère, Festival Alors on Danse ! Aubervilliers – FR

  • 25/05/24 : KM de danse, CN D, Pantin – FR

  • 29/09 - 04/10/2024 : EDANCO- Festival Internacional De Danza Contemporánea, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

  • 09/10/24 : Palais de la Culture Félix Proto, Les Abymes, Guadeloupe

  • 10/10/24 : Auditorium de Basse-Terre,Guadeloupe

  • 12/10/24 : L’artchipel, Scène nationale de la Guadeloupe, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe

  • 16/10/24 : Retirement home, L’Oasis du Bois-Jolan, Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe

  • 18/10/24 :  Baimbridge High School, Les Abymes, Guadeloupe

  • 19-24/01/2025 : Théâtre du fil de l’eau, Pantin, île-de-France

  • 24-30/03/2025 : Tropiques Atrium, Fort-de France, Martinique, Festival CEIBA

  • 26/03/25 au 28/03/25:  Tropiques ATRIUM Scène nationale, Fort de France – MAR

  • 29/03/2025: Correspon’Danse, La Désirade, Guadeloupe

  • 01/04/25 : Correspon’Danse, Saint-François, Guadeloupe

  • 03/04/25 : Macte, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe

  • 04/04/25 : Festival Nou Se Yonn, Basse Terre, Guadeloupe

  • 05-08/06/2025 : Théâtre Macouria, Scène conventionnée d'intérêt national, Macouria, French Guiana

  • Oct-Nov 2025 : Tour of north-east Brazil - Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador, Itacaré, Belem, Sao Paulo

Photo & video by Mikaël Dinic & Olivia N’Ganga

OUTRE-RAGE

SYNOPSIS

After exploring the transatlantic fractures of a journey marked by multiple crossings (from France to the United States, and then a return to Guadeloupe), Hubert Petit-Phar returns to the stage to expose the turmoil of a schizophrenic condition. Psychiatric studies reveal a high prevalence of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, in the Caribbean. Among the reasons cited by these studies are migratory paths—especially those of Black individuals—which often lead to economic hardship, cultural dislocation, and social isolation.

While grounding his work in this clinical dimension, Hubert Petit-Phar offers a choreographic and poetic perspective on the issue. The successive skins one wears to adapt to lands that are at once foreign and familiar unsettle notions of identity and inner coherence. Through repeated efforts to adapt, both body and psyche are transformed, and identity’s reference points are disrupted, reshuffled, redistributed. Being a Black man in a society struggling with its own racism, learning the codes of institutional and legitimized cultures, and then having to navigate an insular context where these codes no longer fully apply.

DISTRIBUTION

Concept, Choreography, Performance: Hubert Petit-Phar

Video and Sound Concept: Kenny Cairo

Outside Eye: Thomas Lebrun

Production: Compagnie La Mangrove

Coproduction
CCN Tours, CCN Ballet Malandain Biarritz, CCN Roubaix as part of the festival Le Mois Kreyol, L’Artchipel – National Stage of Guadeloupe, Récif – Karukera Ballet Scheme, Pointe-à-Pitre, Centre Culturel Le Sonis Guadeloupe, La Maison Rouge – Fort-de-France, Martinique

Partners
DAC de Guadeloupe (subsidized) – Région Guadeloupe – Département de la Guadeloupe, FEAC – French Ministry for Overseas Territories, Ville de Pantin

CALENDAR

  • 24/02–01/03/2025 : Research residency, Carreau du Temple, Paris – FR

  • 02–08/03/2025 : Research residency, Cie Pedro Pauwels / PePau, Montauban – FR

  • 22–26/04/2025 : Research residency, Dispositif Récif – Karukera Ballet, Pointe-à-Pitre – GP

  • 05–11/07/2025 : Research residency, CCN Tours – FR

  • 25–30/08/2025 : Choreographic creation, Maison Rouge, Fort-de-France – MQ

  • 08–14/09/2025 : Choreographic creation, Dispositif Récif – Karukera Ballet, Pointe-à-Pitre – GP

  • 15–20/12/2025 : Choreographic creation, CCN Malandain Ballet, Biarritz – FR

  • 05–08/01/2026 : Choreographic creation, CND, Paris – FR (ongoing)

  • 26–29/05/2026 : Choreographic creation, CCN Tours – FR

  • July 2026 (2–3 weeks) : Choreographic creation, CCN Tours – FR

  • Early September 2026 : Lighting and video creation, CCN Tours – FR