The expansiveness of music and its history with the body made me a dancer without my knowing or planning it.
Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure
Radical Imagination
On Black Anti-spectacularity, Forking Time, and the Potential for Absurdity
Interview by Jazmina Figueroa
23 Feb, 2026
Photo by Nikola Lamburov
For me, it is about non-existence, undead but living, present but vague, holding the potential to simultaneously compel and expel.
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Lepecki, André. Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance. Pg. 32, 2016.
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Mbembe, A. (2019). Necropolitics. Duke University Press
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Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure is a sound, video, and theater maker whose practice materializes the fugitive points of friction between ecstasy and mourning. Guided by a curiosity for how systems ofviolence interlock with the textures of everyday life, her work explores the degrees of legibility suspended in our gazes and the potential to imagine otherwise. Grounded at the crossroads of embodied knowledge and critical theory, she embraces multiplicity and builds choreographies of both repair and revenge that engage with the poetic notions of presence/absence. Her works and performances have been presented at MoMA PS1, Centre Pompidou, ICA London and Miami, MCBA Museum, Arsenic Theatre, Tanzhaus Zürich, Gessnerallee, Friart Kunsthalle, Hartwig Foundation, and Berghain, among others.