For Bwa Kayiman–Lakouzémi, Franco-Martinican multidisciplinary artist Julien Creuzet and Brazilian choreographer Ana Pi premiere the performance Quatuor & Quantum—Larmes marées de la lune [Quartet & quantum—Tears of the moon’s tides] (2025), celebrating the musical dimension of their respective practices. Creuzet and Pi have worked alongside each other for over ten years, using their knowledge, imaginations, and aesthetic tools to give life to typologies of form and performativity that vivify perennial narratives and future projections for Afro-diasporic ancestrality. On this occasion, they join forces in a collaboration with a lyrical vocal ensemble, composed and directed by Makeda Monnet, and which includes sopranos Séléna Hollemaert-Awadé and Cyrielle Ndjiki, to amplify the vibrational layer of their ongoing conversations within a live setting. 

Based on the corpus of lyrics written by Creuzet and the music composed by Creuzet and Ismaïl Lazam for his exhibition at the French Pavilion as part of the 60th Venice Biennale, this new performance augments a continuous interest in poetical and sensorial reflections on water, seas, and oceans as vehicles for the multidirectional movement of peoples, ideas, and cultures, as well as their exchange and hybridization.  

At Creuzet’s invitation, Pi’s movement scores brought to life figures such as the Neptune of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, sacred Bakongo sculptures, and underwater creatures—all of which appear in the animation films that are part of the work. Interpreting live these dance partitures, the choreographer becomes a tangible presence in the performance, appearing as an avatar in reverse that guides the voices to reveal her. The artists unfold an ephemeral space that connects the divine and the fantastic with material and political realms.

Transcending linear chronology and speculations on spatial and conceptual borders, Quatuor & Quantum—Larmes marées de la lune (re)claims to be a cloud, embodying its water and movements to become uncatchable.