Kettly Noël
Haitian dancer, choreographer and actress
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Kettly Noël (born 1966 in Port-au-Prince) is a Haitian dancer, choreographer and actress. Her first choreographed piece, Nanlakou, premiered in 1995. Tichèlbe (2002) won both the Rencontres chorégraphiques d’Afrique et d’océan Indien[1] and RFI Danse prizes.[2] She's the founder and artistic director of the Donko Senko dance studio, Dense Bamako Danse festival, both in Mali, and the Port-au-Prince Art Performance (PAPAP) festival in Haiti.[3] Noël was also noted for her performance in the role of Zabou in Abderrahmane Sissako's 2014 film Timbuktu.[4]
Works
- 1995: Nanlakou
- 2002: Tichèlbè
- 2017: Panser la planète
- 2017: Zombification and Errance, documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany[5]
Prizes
- Rencontres chorégraphiques d’Afrique et d’océan Indien, 2003
- RFI Danse, 2003
- Hiroshima Prize, 2014