On stage at Cultural Centre Stoa in Helsinki: Moving in November - Betty Tchomanga: Decolonial (Hi)stories #Parallel Portraits

The performance is part of Moving in November 5.–15.11.2026. As part of the festival, there will be an open Soup Talks discussion with Tchomanga and local host on the 11th of November at noon in Caisa.

Duration: 2h 30min

Language: English and French with English subtitles

Please note: This performance contains flashing lights

Born in 1989 from a Cameroonian father and a French mother, Betty Tchomanga began her artistic training in 2004 at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux and with Alain Gonotey of Cie Lullaby. In 2007 she trained at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d'Angers (CNDC). As a performer, she has worked with artists such as Emmanuelle Huynh, Alain Buffard, Fanny de Chaillé, Gaël Sesboüé, Herman Diephuis, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, and Nina Santes.

Since 2019, Tchomanga has focused on her writing and research as a choreographer. Her pieces explore the notion of transgression in the sense of going beyond, crossing a limit, whether physical or aesthetic. She likes to produce hybrid forms in which bodies transform and metamorphose. She works with practices that involve overcoming the limits of body and mind through intense engagement of breath, body and voice.

Directed, choreographed and written by: Betty Tchomanga

Artistic collaboration and performance: Emma Tricard, Folly Romain Azaman, Dalila Khatir, Adélaïde Desseauve aka Mulunesh

Lighting design: Eduardo Abdala

Sound design: Stéphane Monteiro

Set design and props: Eduardo Abdala and Betty Tchomanga in collaboration with Vincent Blouch

Construction: Emilie Godreuil

Costumes: Marino Marchand in collaboration with Betty Tchomanga; Théodore Agbotonou (costume of Folly), and Mariette Niquet-Rioux (mask of Mulunesh)

Stage management: Stéphane Monteiro

Lighting manager (alternating): Eduardo Abdala and Tatiana Carret

Sound engineer (alternating): Stéphane Monteiro and Maëlan Carquet

Trainee assistant director: Ariane Chapelet

Executive director: Marion Cachan

Production manager: Florentine Busson

Administrator: Marion Le Guerroué

Acknowledgements: Bureau Aoza, Maxine Le Tyrant, Anouk Le Cann, Rosalie Olivier and the technical team of Quartz - scène nationale de Brest

Production: GANG

Co-production: Le Quartz Scène nationale Brest, Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Le Gymnase CDCN – Roubaix, Le Triangle cité de la danse – Rennes, Danse à tous les étages CDCN itinérant en Bretagne, La Maison danse CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, CCAM scène nationale de Vandoeuvre, Théâtre de la Bastille – Paris

With the support of: Le Mac Orlan – Brest, CAC Passerelle – Brest, Collège Saint-Pol-Roux – Brest, CN D – Centre national de la danse, European program Choreography Connects

With the financial support of: Ministry of Culture – DRAC Bretagne, Brittany region and the City of Brest

Photo: Grégoire Perrier

Visit supported by: Institut français / PIDA, ROM, Spectacle Vivant en Bretagne and Adami

Visit in collaboration with: Stoa