Dorothée Munyaneza

Originally from Rwanda, Dorothée Munyaneza moved to England in the summer of 1994. She studied music at the Jonas Foundation in London and social sciences in Canterbury before settling in France. She collaborated with Francois Verret on Sans Retour, Ice, Cabaret and Do you remember, no I don’t. Afterwards, she worked with many other artists, notably Alain Mahé, Stéphanie Coudert, Radouan Mriziga, Maya Mihindou, and Ben Lamar Gay. In 2013, she founded her company, Kadidi, and created Samedi Détente (2014), Unwanted (2017), and Mailles (2020,Toi, moi, Tituba… (2023), Umuko (2024) and Version(s) (2025). Dorothée Munyaneza combines music, singing, dance and text to move past reality in order to take hold of memory and the body, to make silences heard and to see the scars of History

An associate artist at the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris from 2018 to 2021, Dorothée was also an associate artist at the Théâtre National de Chaillot and the Maison de la Danse in Lyon until 2026.