The podcast, through the lens of fiction, explores racial discrimination and its impact on artistic paths and practices in the performing arts field. It aims to shed light on the realities and needs of racialized individuals, and to build connections between artists, professional learners, training institutions, performance venues, and cultural organizations.

Radio fiction: Noro, through the words of culture
Noro, a 39-year-old woman of Malagasy origin and a stage director, is preparing her first theater production. For this project, she aims to bring together racialized artists and collaborators to explore questions of diasporic identities and relationships to mother tongues. Enthusiastic and full of hope, she gradually finds herself facing the impossibility of putting her ideas into practice—due both to the heaviness and absurdity of cultural institutions and to collaborations that prove far from easy.

Noro navigates between disillusionment and external pressures, where everyone plays a role in the dramatization of struggles. A parallel unfolds between the racial discrimination experienced by her own daughter and her own experiences—two generations, two practices, both shaped by the weight of discrimination and its expectations.

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Biographie

With a background in psychology, Prisca Ratovonasy is a socially conscious screenwriter, artistic coordinator, writer, and filmmaker.

She is the author of the podcast Les Enfants du Bruit et de l’Odeur, on issues of racism and discriminations in training programs. She also is a consultant, cultural mediator and a coach specialized on questions of diasporic identities and representation of non-white bodies in creative spaces.