BOW’T TRAIL Retrospek

Rhodnie Désir Créations, presented by dance Immersion with support from DanceWorks

April 4-5, 2025

Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto

Since 2015, Rhodnie Désir has been exploring the Americas in search of Afro-descendant cultures, including Martinique, Haiti, Brazil, Mexico, Halifax and New Orleans. The choreographer, driven by a desire and a need to transcend her origins, has been immersing herself in the African cultures and rhythms of the peoples who were taken to these lands. The resulting performance piece, BOW’T TRAIL Retrospek, is a conversation between the present and the past, channeled through the body of Rhodnie Désir, in which more than 130 testimonies collected on lands of the Americas still reside. In this award-winning interdisciplinary work, Désir transcends polyrhythmic and majestic textures and sonorities while her body is mysteriously enveloped by video projections and plural memories connecting the audience to the universe of her travels. She is accompanied on stage by two maestros: Engone Endong and Jahsun.

This presentations follows dance Immersion’s 2023 Toronto presentation of the studio excerpt of this work.

Dates and Times

Friday, April 4, 2025 at 11:00am & 8:00pm

Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 8:00pm

Additional Details

The Harbourfront Centre Theatre is located at 231 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON M5J 2G8.

More information coming soon!