{"id":48476,"date":"2011-06-12T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T22:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=48476"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:35:38","slug":"june-10-12-2011-marquesas-islands-songs-and-dances-musee-du-quai-branly-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2011\/06\/june-10-12-2011-marquesas-islands-songs-and-dances-musee-du-quai-branly-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"June 10-12, 2011: Marquesas Islands songs and dances, Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly, Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Festival de l\u2019Imaginaire<\/strong><\/em> continues its 15th edition in Paris up to June 15. Following the Way\u00e3pi from French Guiana at the Parisian \u00ab House of Cultures of the World<\/strong> \u00bb<\/a> on May 28 and 29, here\u2019s another French overseas peoples, the Marquesan<\/strong>, who\u2019ll be performing in Paris from June 10 to 12, as well as in Vitr\u00e9 on June 15.<\/p>\n

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Nuku Hiva dancers \u00ae Caroline Issoulie\u00fc<\/p><\/div>\n

Quick reminder; Marquesan <\/strong>is officially recognized as a \u00ab regional language of France \u00bb in the same way as Basque, Breton, Occitan, the languages of French Guiana or the Kanak languages of New Caledonia. It is known as \u00ab Eo \u2019enana \u00bb (in northwestern speech) or \u00ab Eo \u2019enata \u00bb (southeastern speech), meaning \u00ab the language of humans \u00bb or \u00ab human language \u00bb. It belongs to the eastern branch of the Polynesian languages<\/strong> and is also related to Hawaiian<\/strong>, the islands of Hawaii having probably been populated from the Marquesas.<\/p>\n

There are around 16,000 speakers of Marquesan, and a Marquesan Academy<\/strong> saw the light in 2000.<\/p>\n

Director of the Maison des Cultures du Monde Arwad Esber\u2019s account on Marquesan:<\/p>\n

\u00ab Deculturation, acculturation, prohibitions of all sorts including that of speaking the mother language, loss of identity, loss of memory, a population decimated by diseases and grief, a population who let itself die\u2026 \u2018Because it was no longer dancing\u2019 allegedly said a Marquesan local leader.<\/p>\n

So in the 70s, a handful of exceptional young Marquesan wished to recover their \u00ab soul \u00bb and began a remarkable work of collection with the elders across the whole strip of islands: a memory of the legends, gestures and rhythms. And also dances. Dance had been revived, and with it the enthusiasm of the new generations for whom it an ideal ground for expressing their sense of pride in existence (\u2026).<\/p>\n

On each island of the archipelago, one or more associations regularly gather the young and the even-youngers to dance and put up different festivals, but also to create new figures together. \u00bb<\/p>\n

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The Festival de l\u2019Imaginaire has wished to offer its audience an example of the vitality of the renewing Marquesan culture, and in this fashion, has invited the Te Hina O Motu Haka<\/strong> group, from the island of Nuku Hiva<\/strong>, to present a performance created from a legend, that of the creation of the Marquesas Islands\u2026<\/p>\n


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Places, dates and schedules:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

– Paris, Mus\u00e9e du quai Branly:<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday June 10 and Saturday June 11 at 8pm<\/em><\/p>\n

Sunday June 12 at 5pm<\/em><\/p>\n

– Vitr\u00e9, Jacques Duhamel cultural center theater:<\/em><\/p>\n

Wednesday June 15<\/em><\/p>\n

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For more information<\/a><\/p>\n

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