Choreographic-documentary LAB'Ò

The LAB'Ò is an incubation phase that determines the type of commitment the Studio AKÒ team will bring to the subject. Lasting from 2 to 3 years, this more secretive stage is an opportunity to win over partners before the project becomes public knowledge. Built up in stages, like an R&D project, it undergoes an analytical process at every stage to optimize the commitment of each resource and the intervention of the best people at the right time. Want to know what's being created in the mystery of our home? Would you like to become a partner or suggest a topic?

Le LAB'Ò est un incubateur détenteur d'une expertise unique au monde, ramenant les valeurs de l'humanité au cœur de nos sociétés, par le pouvoir des arts et de l'alliance des savoirs pluriels. It acts for Human Rights.

In our living LAB'Ò , all our artistic collaborators immerse themselves in real-life narratives to create a polyrhythmic, narrative gestural language, giving rise to an original Afro-contemporary body language. An innovative process, it places dance in a profound dialogue with society, exploring universal themes through a documentary and sensory approach. Through a dialogue between transmission and interpretation, it fashions a human choreographic language, where each movement becomes a living trace of profound stories.

This methodology places culture at the center of a collective dynamic, proposing a sustainable and inclusive model.


First incubated project in February 2025 : SCÒ

SCÒ will explore physical and social tensions and twists, drawing parallels between the diagnosis of scoliosis in adolescents, the role of caregivers, and the perpetual social adaptations to which human beings are forced. After 36 hours of intensive work in our laboratory, we have produced the first 15 minutes of this performance. These minutes lay the foundations for a choreographic exploration that goes far beyond mere performance. They weave a corporeal narrative that speaks of resilience, inner strength and beauty in the face of adversity.

Second incubated project in May 2025 : KÒSA

KÒSA addresses the notion of the dimensions through the lens of childrens, thanatology, theology and astrophysics, questioning our fascination and fears towards a universal and intimate subject: death. [Read more]

The power of the choreographic-documentary LAB'Òs is that it permits us to multiply in an infinity of mediums -of bodies -  the essence of the testimonies collected around a social cause during the first phase of the research approach. Danse, music, lighthing, scenography, immersive exhibition, music composition, photo, documentaty video... a ingenious and intuitive conversation with infinity !

“My wish is to make the invisible audible through the power of art, weaving together knowledge, cultures and the complexities of our society” -  Rhodnie Désir.

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EXHIBITION CONVERSATIONS

EXHIBITION CONVERSATIONS

La toute première exposition de Rhodnie Désir. En co-création avec 4 artistes : Manuel Chantre, Paul Chambers et Engone Endong, accompagnée par la commissaire et artiste Cecilia Bracmort.

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