Dushime: INZOZI ZANJYE ft Cortex Ensemble (try-out) / 4AD

Dushime presents INZOZI ZANJYE ft Cortex Ensemble Multidisciplinaire performance by a versatile Belgian-Rwandan artist. INZOZI ZANJYE, 'my dreams' in Kinyarwanda, is a multidisciplinary performance between concert, dance, and theater, which unfolds as a journey through the landscapes of Dushime’s existence. As an artist of Rwandan descent living in Belgium, she has always moved between two worlds, without ever fully landing in either. This in-betweenness created a deep need to understand where she belongs. During this search, she experienced feelings of displacement and alienation, which sometimes caused a burden that felt greater than her own life. This performance moves through the different rooms that lie within her: her memories, her desire, her grief, and her joy. She ends up in a dreamscape, a space between the self and the soul, where familiar narratives fade and time falls apart into a non-linear reality. Every element in this work carries a voice, a presence: the protagonist (Dushime), the guide and the soul (dancer), the ancestors (choir and ensemble), and the world itself. These forces are in a continuous dialogue in which memory, body, and mind are intertwined. Nothing is placed without purpose, everything speaks and everything listens. At the intersection of music, movement, stories, and visual language, a journey of surrender, searching, listening, understanding, and liberation unfolds. INZOZI ZANJYE makes you a witness to a transformation, in the hope of anchoring and connecting us collectively.