"I recorded their voices and really tried to capture how they held themselves, how they walked, how they wiped away their tears. It all became physical, choreographic, material. We hear some of their testimonies in the piece, and I had to find a way for the body to navigate through these spoken words"
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At first it was going to be a solo piece said Dorothée Munyaneza (The New York Times, Sept. 19, 2017)
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