Dorothée Munyaneza is a multi-disciplinary artist using music, song, text and movement to deal with rupture as a dynamic force. Munyaneza draws from real stories seizing body, memory and our times to create a space of resonance.

Her style of creating and performing on stage is directly inspired by what life has so intensely given her. Her artistic research draws from the diversity of her cultural heritage – her extended family in Rwanda, the experience of the 14 years spent in London, her move to Paris followed by her settling in Marseille -, but more so by her appetite for encounters.

Dorothée Munyaneza sings since her childhood, trains at the Jonas Foundation in London, studies music and social sciences in Canterbury, where she becomes certain that music and sound are pivotal in her work.

In 2006, she meets François Verret, they collaborate on Sans Retour, Ice, Cabaret, and Do you remember, no I don’t. Since then, other collaborations have included Radouan Mriziga, Alain Mahé, Jean-François Pauvros, Robyn Orlin, Ko Murobushi, Nan Goldin, Stéphanie Coudert, Rachid Ouramdane, Maud Le Pladec, Alain Buffard, Maya Mihindou and Ben LaMar Gay.

In 2013, Munyaneza founds in Marseille the Kadidi company. The company’s repertoire includes Samedi Détente (2014), Unwanted (2017), Mailles (2020) and umuko (2024).

In 2020 Dorothée Munyaneza translates Hopelessly Devoted by Kae Tempest (formerly known as Kate Tempest), Inconditionnelles is published by L’Arche Éditeur, a text she will stage end of 2024 for the Bouffes du Nord in Paris.

Associate artist to the Théâtre la Ville – Paris from 2018 to 2021, Dorothée is associated to the Théâtre National de Chaillot, the Maison de la Danse in Lyon, and in residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis.