Facerea și desfacerea persoanei-colective liminale prin dans – „Toi, moi, Tituba‟, de Dorothée Munyaneza

Abstract

The Making and Unmaking of the Liminal Collective-Person – „Toi, moi, Tituba‟, by Dorothée Munyaneza
I am the descendant of a shepherd male-witch whose practices were condemned by the community and whose descendants changed their place and name. I am interested in marginal existences and I use insights from the theory of the dramaturgy of liminality developed in my doctoral thesis, as well as insights from Elsa Dorlin's article and from writings by Silvia Federici and VK Preston to show the making of the witch – the making of the image of the cunning woman who uses her craft to do evil –, and then to show how Dorothée Munyaneza has succeeded in the dramaturgical act of (almost-magical) undoing of this image. “Toi, moi, Tituba” is the choreographic, dramaturgical and magical act by which Tituba, witch-slave-woman and liminal collective-person is unravelled, step by step, into the true, oppressed, sensual, gifted and luminous existences that have been hidden, intentionally or unintentionally, into her character.