COQUILLES

For his first creation for young audiences, Amala Dianor is bringing together two performers with two different physicalities. The choreographer, known for blending styles and forms, questions the dancers’ vocabulary and identity.How can the contrasts be blurred to brush aside the expected and detect a shared language? In this quest, the bodies spurn their mechanics and skirt around their origins so that the gesture is liberated and becomes intermingled. Energies add up and ultimately find their own orchestration, resonating with the very young.

Conception, choreography : Amala Dianor
Performance: Lucie Benhalima, Bryan Kpabja, Milane Cathala-Di Fabrizio, Estanis Radureau
(two performers alternating)
Artistic assistant: Alexandre Galopin
Costume: Camille Pénager
Light: Nicolas Tallec

Production: Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts‑de‑France as part of the choreographic commissioning project Les mouvements minuscules (Tiny Movements)
Coproduction: Fonds LOOP – professional network dance and youth, Cndc – Angers, Le Théâtre – Scène nationale de Mâcon, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle‑Aquitaine Bordeaux, Escales Danses – Réseau conventionné danse en territoire, CND Centre national de la danse, Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine Saint-Denis, L’ échangeur ‑ CDCN Hauts‑de‑France, Opéra de Limoges, Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris, Chaillot théâtre national de la danse
Support : Génération Belle Saison’s Fund

After starting out as a hip hop dancer, Amala Dianor entered the prestigious CNDC school in Angers (in the class of 2002). His dance style and vocabulary were immediately identifiable: sliding from one technique to another with ease and virtuosity, he strips away the showy, spectacular stuff from his choreographic techniques, keeping instead only the raw, essential movement. With this deconstructive process he allows his dancers to experiment with new approaches and ideas. Drawn to dialogue and the meeting of minds and bodies, he creates a dance fusion, a hybrid of shapes, a poetics of otherness.  Cie Amala Dianor has 18 creations in his repertory, ranging from large form works to solos, and has performed more than 80 times a year in France and abroad In 2022, Amala Dianor is one of the four European choreographers to be selected and supported by the program Big Pulse Dance Network (Creative Europe). Amala Dianor has received the Médaille de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2019.