Mackenzy Bergile and Cassandre Muñoz
- Live performance
- Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille
- 15h, 16h, 17h and 18h
- Free
MACKENZY BERGILE + CASSANDRE MUÑOZ
Week-end FIESTA at Gare Saint Sauveur
With the installation Je dois mon imagination aux papillons qui disparaissent dans le sous-bois by Alex Cecchetti
Alex Ceccheti’s ‘dervish skirts’ are textile works conceived as poems to be activated by the dancers invited to wear them as costumes. For Latitudes Contemporaines, as part of the exhibition La fête : une expérience intérieure at the Gare Saint Sauveur, dancers Mackenzy Bergile and Cassandre Muñoz will alternate short performances in which they will inhabit these poem skirts with their dance.
Within the framework of the exhibition La fête intérieure at the Gare Saint Sauveur
Within the framework of FIESTA – lille3000
Biography(s)
MACKENZY BERGILE
Mackenzy Bergile is a self-taught artist of many talents, born in Paris and based in Lorient. His rich and eclectic career combines dance, music and poetry, influenced by his Haitian and French roots. He explores with great lucidity the interactions between the intimate and the political, freeing himself from traditional academic frameworks to develop a unique body language and fuse various registers of movement, notably through traditional Haitian dances, hip-hop, jazz and contemporary dance.
His musical work, centred around the piano, blends baroque influences with voodoo resonances, creating pieces that evoke history and the invisible. Mackenzy has collaborated with major figures in contemporary dance, such as Emmanuel Eggermont and Boris Charmatz, and has composed for films and dance companies. These experiences have enabled him to question the boundaries of dance and to engage in ongoing research into art as a transformative act.
In parallel with his artistic projects, he founded the Domaine Mauricio Bergile, a research centre in the heart of nature, combining permaculture and artistic practices. Scheduled to open in 2027, the estate will be a creative laboratory where artists and researchers can develop their projects in harmony with the environment, while exploring the links between art, nature and sustainability.
With Inès Mauricio, he has also co-created Regard Sur Le Geste, a publication dedicated to analysing the motivations behind artistic action, offering a unique insight into the deeper meanings behind each gesture.
CASSANDRE MUÑOZ
Cassandre Munoz/Moun is a movement artist. A dancer, choreographer and performer, she currently works with François Chaignaud (Petites Joueuses/2024), Volmir Cordeiro (Parterre/2025; Abri/2023), Youness Aboulakoul (Ayta/2024), Emmanuel Eggermont (All over Nympheas/2022) and Annabelle Playe (Magna/2022). As a child, she trained with Patricia Ferrara, who introduced her to the here and now of a body-landscape. During her training at the Toulouse CDCN La Place de la Danse (2012-2014), she took part in creations by Aurélien Richard, Rita Cioffi, Sophie Perez & Xavier Boussiron and Fabrice Lambert. In 2016, she returned to university at Paris 8 to add a theoretical dimension to her approach. Since then, she has been developing a practice that explores the vibratory space opened up by the polysemy of a state, a gesture and an intention. Artistic director and choreographer of the So Far company, her research explores multiple forms of action: dancing, sailing, breathing, staring, exhausting, losing. In long-term residency at the Poush Manifesto workshops in Aubervilliers, she is now delving into her history of cross-breeding to conjure up a dynamic conception of identity. Her latest project, Prosopon Project, uses a variety of media: plastic (clay and paraffin masks), performative, semantic and digital (video sculpted using Artificial Intelligence). This ‘proteiformat’ won her the Performance Prize at the 2024 edition of the Nova XX Plurivers & Contingence Biennial at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles in Paris.
