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Mackenzy Bergile

— Associate Artist with FAIR-E / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne

The body as memory

Choreographer, self-taught pianist, and poet, Mackenzy Bergile treats gesture and sound as a single material to explore memory and transmission


Mackenzy Bergile is an interdisciplinary French-Haitian artist—choreographer, pianist, poet, and researcher—whose practice explores questions of memory, domination, and transmission through the body and movement.

Originally from Paris and now based in Rennes, he develops a multidisciplinary practice in which his various fields of activity intersect and inform one another. Beginning with traditional Haitian dance and hip hop, his sensitivity gradually led him beyond a purely gestural approach to movement, towards a more emancipated and communicative form of dance.

Without formal musical training, his approach to the piano emerges from an essential and direct relationship to sound, where frequencies are shaped into subtle shades and tonalities. His work at the piano is guided by close attention to the body in movement and explores its melancholic dimensions through a minimal and precise language.

Alongside his own practice, he collaborates with artists and choreographers such as Emmanuel Eggermont on Polis, and Boris Charmatz on 20 danseurs pour le XXe siècle and La Ruée.

With Inès Mauricio, he co-founded Galerie Mauricio Bergile, a space in Lorient dedicated to exhibitions, workshops, and multidisciplinary performances in support of an open and liberated approach to dance. In 2025, the two artists also founded the structure Être et Faire et Être, through which Mackenzy Bergile continues to develop his interdisciplinary practice. His solo Autothérapie: Unbolting Colonial Statues from Our Consciousness (2025) will be followed by Identity is a rumor, until death writes it down (2027).

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