Mackenzy Bergile

Mackenzy Bergile is a French-Haitian choreographer, designer, pianist-composer, poet and playwright. He develops a body of work of rare formal breadth, in which dance, music, writing, clothing, objects and scenography are shaped by the same commitment to precision, beauty and thought.
Trained in fashion and garment-making between 2011 and 2014, he founded Mackenzy Bergile Studio in 2016, a creative and conservation workshop through which he conceives and develops his entire body of work. As an artist collaborator and visiting practitioner at the École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne — Lorient campus, from 2016 to 2018, he gradually developed a strikingly intense visual language of the body, in which gesture becomes at once archive, ordeal, musical matter and a force for repair.
His major work, Autothérapie (2025), followed by Identity Is a Rumor, Until Death Writes It Down (2027), extends this research through stage architectures devoted to colonial legacies, family transmissions, interrupted intimate narratives and the forms left behind by those who have disappeared. Photographs, garments, instruments, texts, images and stage structures acquire an almost sovereign presence.
A resident artist with the European PIPD — Ailleurs & Ici network from 2025 to 2030, and an associated artist at the Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne from 2026 to 2028, Mackenzy Bergile is now pursuing a long-term research process centred on family repair, intergenerational healing and the relationship between the intimate and the political, where individual experiences are constantly shaped by collective, historical and diasporic memories.