Creole Cadences is a poetic-argumentative essay driven by the functions of three families of Haitian voodoo deities: the love and eroticism of Erzulie, the initiatory capacity and wisdom of Simbi, and the mischief and endless unfolding of the Marassa twins. This spiritual device draws us nearer to the choreographic field of this publication: the kuduro of Angola, the coupé décalé of the Ivory Coast, dancehall from Jamaica, and pantsula and amapiano from South Africa. The dancer and researcher Inés Sybille situates herself in relation to these Black technopoetics to produce her diasporic, mnemonic subjectivity and her existential consciousness.
The intrinsic philosophies of Haitian Voodoo, the kuduro of Angola and the coupé décalé of the Ivory Coast compel the artist to exist within a dynamic interplay of relationships and mutations. She does not represent any of the cultural codes she is passionate about, learning by approaching them carefully, with enough time to be able to understand without seeing or deciphering everything. These connections of thought and body help her to embrace the transtemporal mysteries that also intervene in her diasporic memory and existence.
