We are delighted to announce the list of the CommonLAB 2024 artists.

This year, exceptionally, 9 artists, selected from over 200 applications, have been invited to imagine together the stories that will be on our stages tomorrow.

Avildseen Bheekhoo
Metz-based multidisciplinary artist

In Hollanda, in the aftermath of the Mauritius Island’s sinking, a lost VHS footage, shot just after the 1994 cyclone Hollanda, is discovered, revealing a psychotic episode revolving around a horny werewolf and an island on the brink of a racial war.

Diego Bragà
Lisbon-based trans and non-binary Luso-Brazilian theatre-maker, filmmaker and author

An androgynous opera, We at the nightclub suffer together welcomes broken hearts at the end of the night and to celebrate the idea of a beautiful future together.

Nadim Bahsoun
Lebanese dancer, choreographer and queer activist, based between Paris and Brussels

Interactive performance, System Error questions the links between historical gender and body perceptions and the production of violence.

Azani V. Ebengou,
actress, writer, theatre director, based in Marseille

Her Kongo Chroniques, a theatre series in eight episodes, recounts the live of a Congolese family line throughout time, from precolonial times to the future.

Lucía García Pullés
dancer, choreographer, actress and author, originally from Buenos Aires, based in Paris

Mother Tongue tells García Pullés’ personal story between tongues, and with her tongue, blending the need to survive, the fear of disappearing and the desire for fiction.

Jin Xuan Mao
actor, writer, performer, queer activist, based in Paris

The story of a filial relationship, My Odyssey is an ode to the obstinate quest for oneself, an incandescent celebration of reconciliation and fulfillment.

Inés Sybille Vooduness
dancer, choreographer born in Barcelona, based in Lisbon

Our digital lakou, a performance generating complex rituals and a diasporic and digital revisiting of the haitian lakou.

Pankaj Tiwari
Indian multidisciplinary artist, based in Amsterdam

While deciding global ethicalities, the West conveniently forgets individual realities existing in the same world at the same time. Converting Shame into Dream is an attempt to tell other stories...

Agathe Yamina Meziani
Belgo-Kabylo-Greek performer and dramaturg, based in Brussels

Kabylifornie develops a journey through layers of identity, personal and collective memory, and history.

A moving laboratory meeting multiple working contexts, CommonLAB 2024 will make a stopover this year in:

• Lisbon, Portugal, from June 17 to 30, at the Espaço Alkantara,
• Maputo, Mozambique, from September 2 to 15, in collaboration with CulturArte,
• Bobigny, France, from October 14 to 27, at the MC93,
• and finally in Brussels from October 28 to November 10, at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles.

More about the artists :
→ https://www.commonstories.eu/en/the-project/common-lab/common-lab-2024

Common Stories has been initiated by the Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, MC93 I Bobigny (France), in partnership with the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles I Brussels (Belgium), Alkantara, Culturgest I Lisbon (Portugal), africologneFESTIVAL I Cologne (Germany), Riksteatern I Stockholm (Sweden), in association with TR Warszawa I Warsaw (Poland).

→ www.commonstories.eu