Archive Productions

  • Across the Souvenir (2017)

    Translating the past into a possible future by entering a space with a decolonial perspective and performing a ritual that will transcend onto those who are in the present. 

     "The piece is intense, and it is the intensity that draws you in as you seek to gain understanding of the intricacies that are being presented." Tia-Monique Uzor

  • Ceci N'est Pas Noire (2013)

    With dance, theatre, songs, spoken words and music Ceci n’est pas Noire is a reflective journey of an Afropean woman delving into her personal memories whilst unfolding subjects, which touches the audiences in a socio-cultural, political and historical way.

    Playing with the idea that what you see is not always was you get.

  • So. We. To. (2012)

    16 June 1976, high-school students in Soweto started protesting for better education, police responded with teargas and live bullets…

    A still picture can speak volumes, looking at photographs taken during ‘The Soweto Uprising’, here Seutin explores the journey that led children to have been captured in such outspoken images.

  • WORD! (2011)

    What is the definition of street survival? Word! is a multidisciplinary dance theatre piece, which focuses on the sensationalised headlines around youth culture. Harnessing the power of movement, music and words to ask 'is it in our power to speak about these things and can we do anything about it?

    Photo: Carmen Klammer.

  • Temps Mort (2010)

    Temps Mort is a powerful sextet that embodies a fierce combination of dance, percussive rhythms and broken beats fused for an exploration on the theme of polygamy.

    Photo: Carmen Klammer.

  • Frusted (2010)

    Merging Club styles and African Contemporary dance, Frusted, a collaboration between Alesandra Seutin and Vicki Igbokwe focuses on the internal struggle women face on a daily basis. 

    The work takes an abstract bird’s eye view on three individual women's stories and we are let into their world and exposed to their internal battles.

  • Atomic Sun (2009)

    An intimate portrait about the search humanity in collaboration with voice artist Randolph Matthews and composer Daniel ‘DabBeat’ Gale Hayes.

    Photo: Nick Gurney.

  • Kwenda Kwenda (2008)

    Alesandra Seutin's first long length production. Kwenda-Kwenda is inspired by an African saying “If you don’t know where you are going, look back at your roots.” It is about the choice between not knowing where you are going or staying in touch with your origins. Music by African Pan Orchestra (Ghana), Zap Mama (Belgium) and Randolph Matthews (UK).

    Photo: Irven Lewis.