Poètes, vos papiers!
"Poètes… vos papiers !", un spectacle qui fait résonner les notes musicales et les mots tendres, audacieux, puissants ou ludiques auxquels Michèle Voltaire Marcelin offre sa voix rauque et sensuelle et Buyu Ambroise, la sonorité de son saxophone. Manuscrits, correspondances, rimes et déraisons, textes rares ou non, célèbres ou inédits, "Poètes, vos papiers !" ~ révérence à Ferré, à la chanson et à la poésie populaire ~ fait passer, par-delà les frontières et les langues, ce bien commun qu’est la poésie du monde. "Le poète a toujours raison", disait Aragon. Raison de dévoiler ses émotions sur la place publique. Raison de "dire" le monde.Vous aussi, vous aurez raison de venir partager ce voyage musical et poétique avec Michèle Voltaire Marcelin et Buyu Ambroise pour découvrir, re-découvrir et jouir des textes de Ferré, Prévert, Aragon, Dimey,Voltaire Marcelin et d’autres, dans une fusion intuitive de poésie et de jazz où les voix de la diseuse et celle du saxophone se mêlent, s’entremêlent et se demêlent pour le plus grand plaisir des spectateurs. Ce spectacle organisé par la CIDIHCA a eu lieu dans le beau cabaret Au Lion d’Or de Montréal fin Aout 2011.
Michèle Voltaire Marcelin, née en Haiti, est poète, comédienne et peintre et reside aux Etats Unis d’Amérique. Le saxophoniste Buyu Ambroise est né en Haiti et dirige “Blues in Red”, un quartet de jazz-fusion. Vovo, percussioniste brésilien vit actuellement à Montréal.
In this video clip, Michèle performs RapJazz, a poem by FrankEtienne. To enjoy more performances in English, French and Creole, click on more video clips.
The poetry and music performance "Poètes…vos papiers !" , a tribute to the poets who inspired Michèle Voltaire Marcelin was presented by CIDIHCA at the beautiful Montréal cabaret Au Lion d’Or late August. Maestro Buyu Ambroise and his tenor sax and directly from Brazil, master percussionist Vovo, accompanied the poet during this poetry and music performance which featured the works of French poets Léo Ferré, Aragon, Prévert, Haitian poet Frankétienne and Voltaire Marcelin’s own poems.
Archives
Subscribe to Lidous via Email
jmc strategies
- Primer on the Anti-Immigrant Forces Determined to Hijack American Politics
- Immigration: Waiting for Godot Need Not Be Policy
- Baby Doc is Dead, Duvalierism Lives On
- Human Rights in Haiti in the Manigat Era
- Dealing With Statelessness in the Dominican Republic
- Haiti: It Started with a Bang…
- The Duvalier Case: What Is at Stake at the Court of Appeals
- Another day of reckoning for Jean Claude Duvalier?
- Will Duvalier’s Victims Have Their Day in Court?
- Will Duvalier Regain Access to Illicit Funds Pilfered from the Haitian Treasury?
Michèle Voltaire Marcelin is a poet/writer, performer and painter who was born and raised in Haiti, sojourned in Chile, and currently lives in the United States. The publication of her first novel “La Désenchantée” (CIDIHCA, Montréal-2006) was followed by its Spanish translation “La Desencantada” and two other books of poetry and prose: “Lost and Found” and “Amours et Bagatelles” (CIDIHCA, Montréal-2009) - translated into Spanish by Editorial ALBA as "Amores y cosas sin importancia" - all of which garnered rave reviews. Her writings are also featured in 3 anthologies published in France: "Cahier Haiti" (published by RAL'M-2009), "Terre de Femmes" (Editions Bruno Doucey-2011) "Revue Intranqu'îllités" (2012). She speaks and writes fluently French, English, Spanish and Haitian Creole. She has a BFA from the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts at CUNY and a Masters from The New School for Social Research.
Leave a Comment