Compagnie Danseincolore

05/06/2026

02/06/2026

From Congo to the United States, the dance continues its journey. 🇨🇬🇺🇸

Congolese culture is alive, and it continues to move and inspire the world.

When I dance, I allow myself to be carried by the energies that have been passed down to me. I embody the teachings I received during my initiations the rhythms, the songs, and the movements inherited from my ancestors.

Each dance is an act of memory, transmission, and connection.

01/06/2026

Hello to all my friends in Oakland!

Many of you have been asking me to come and share Congolese culture with you. After my time in Santa Cruz, I’ll be with you this Tuesday, June 2nd, at the Malonga Center.

We’ll be dancing to the rhythms of traditional Congolese dances, accompanied by live drumming, spiritual songs, and a beautiful spirit of sharing and connection.

Come discover, learn, and celebrate the richness of our culture together.

Registration is now open.
Please see the flyer below for all the details.

I look forward to dancing with you!

Gervais Tomadiatunga
Knight of Arts and Letters – Dancer, Choreographer, and Ambassador of Congolese Cultural Traditions 🇨🇬

30/05/2026

I carry the Congo with me wherever I go.

I do not alter the traditional dances of my ancestors. I share and transmit them with respect, exactly as they were entrusted to me by the masters who initiated and guided me.

Through my travels around the world, I have discovered many cultures, but above all, I have learned the value of my own.

Every year, in the United States and beyond, I share the dances I learned in the heart of Congolese villages. Through them, I pass on a memory, a history, and an identity.

Thank you to our ancestors. Thank you to all those who shared their knowledge and wisdom with me.

I am a son of the Congo. I come from Africa, a land of strength, warmth, and dignity.

Gervais Tomadiatunga

20/05/2026

Nous sommes bien arrivés à Turin avec Capi.
Il y a 6 mois, avec ma compagnie Danseincolore, nous étions invités à la 25e édition du festival international de danse Interplay pour présenter ma création « Congo Ka Boyé »
Aujourd’hui, je reviens dans cette même ville avec mes instruments traditionnels Ngoma, prêts à faire résonner la mémoire, la rencontre et le partage.

Cette fois-ci, je partagerai la scène avec Petit Solo Diabaté, venu du Burkina Faso, ainsi que toute son équipe.
Deux univers, deux histoires, une même énergie : celle de l’Afrique qui danse, qui crée et qui transmet.

La danse continue de nous réunir au-delà des frontières.
L’art reste cet espace où nos voix deviennent libres.
demain, les percussions parleront pour nous.

Que la danse nous parle.
Que l’art nous libère.

Merci Tshamala pour les Ngoma
Gervais Tomadiatunga
Ka Boyé Élima.
www.danseincolore.com

13/05/2026

I gather what the world abandons.
Waste, plastics, broken objects, forgotten traces left along roadsides, in the cities through which my creation Congo Ka Boyé passes.
Where some see filth, I see a living material.
A silent cry of our time.
So I transform.
I stitch wounds closed with my hands.
I craft costumes from the remnants of the world, to restore dignity to what was condemned to disappear.
Each piece of plastic carries a story.
Each costume becomes a body that speaks of survival, of beauty, of Africa, of resistance and of renaissance.
To create with waste is not simply to make art.
It is to refuse the squandering of objects, of cultures, of human beings.
Congo Ka Boyé is a dance born from ruins to manufacture light.