Bintou Dembélé created the choreography of a landmark production of Rameau’s opera-ballet Les Indes Galantes (1735)—a ballet saturated with unbridled French Baroque colonial fantasies—which shook the Opéra Bastille in 2019. As a speaker featured on the “Black Baroque” focus series, Dembélé will comment on the significance of the Bastille production of Les Indes Galantes as well as her work dismantling oppressive structures as a Queer Black artist in the world of opera.
Event originally held on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
Interview facilitated by Dr. Noémie Ndiaye (Assistant Professor of English/Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago).
Program Design by Noémie Ndiaye and Gabrielle Randle-Bent. Program Management by Brandy C. Williams. English and French Transcription by Clara Nizard. Captions by William Addison Wood.
Sponsored by the following University of Chicago entities:
Court Theatre
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
Committee on Theater and Performance Studies
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of English Language and Literature
Transcript of the interview available here: [ Ссылка ]
