Inés Sybille Vooduness is a dancer, cultural researcher, and teacher. Born in Barcelona to a Catalan mother and a Haitian father, she is currently based in Lisbon. Inés Sybille conceives fictitious encounters with deities from Haitian voodoo, drawing from the pool of her choreographic references: Angolan kuduro, Ivorian _coupé-décalé, and Jamaican dancehall. She gives a shape to this philosophical material and explores the possibility of raising an existential conscience by reterritorializing these codes. In 2023, Inés was selected as artist-in-residence at La Casa Encendida with her performance Santa de Sustrato Autónomo. She is currently collaborating with Festival TNT de Terrassa and Teatro do Bairro Alto, in Lisbon, to produce her work Simbi em águas astronômicas. In addition, she began a research project titled O nosso lakou digital, for which she was selected to be in residence as part of Forum Dança’s Núcleo 2024 program, at Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva, and which was selected as a project pitch at Common Lab 2024.
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© Maria Archer
