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“For this new work, I will be looking for a number of young urban dancers. virtuosic and specialized in the new dances being developed underground, live and online, which are being broadcast and shared everywhere on social media. I’m planning to work with the electro composer Awir Leon playing live onstage as well with the visual artist Grégoire Korganow, creating an ephemeral space onstage for this international group of young dancers, a special meeting place which for the length of the piece will highlight their creative energy and the incredible vitaliy of their dancing. DUB should not be understood literally as a creation set to this kind of music, more as a reference to the process of appropriation which is often prevalent in this music, in urban dancing and in my work in particular.

The rationale consists of using the quoted movement as a first step but then immediately proposing something that hijacks, lengthens, twists or breaks it. A dub pulls its musical passages from acoustic reggae, distorting it, first highlighting the drums and the bass, blending it with electronic sounds, thereby creating far off acoustic spaces and new electro-atmospheric tonalities. Applying the same rationale to movement, I experiment with it and am constantly developing it in my pieces. Here, we are looking at a double distortion: the young dancers have developed a vocabulary which is rooted in the choreographic references of my generation, offering them an expanse of new dimensions, new areas. Then I modify the choreography to connect it from within. I will invite the dancers to change their practices, scattering and diffusing parts of their technique so that they may open new collective creative spaces for themselves, more active, more luminous, infinitely more free.”

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CHOREOGRAPHER : Amala Dianor

VISUAL ARTIST : Grégoire Korganow

LIVE MUSIC : Awir Leon

PERFORMERS : Slate Hemedi Dindangila, Romain Franco, Jordan, John Hope, Enock Kalubi Kadima, Mwendwa Marchand, Kgotsofalang Joseph Mavundla, Sangram Mukhopadhyay, Tatiana Gueria Nade, Yanis Ramet, Germain Zambi, Asia Zonta

LIGHTS AND TECHNICAL MANAGER : Nicolas Tallec alternating with Agathe Geffroy

COSTUMES Minuit Deux, Fabrice Couturier

SOUND MANAGER Emmanuel Catty

STAGE MANAGER : David Normand, Martin Rahard alternating with Thibaut Trilles

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR : Valérie Pouleau

TECHNICAL MANAGER : Nicolas Barrot, Véronique Charbit

TOUR MANAGER : Lucie Jeannenot

SET CONSTRUCTION : Juan Cariou, Fabienne Desfleches, Paul Dufayet, Valentin Dumeige, Moïse Elkaout, Manon Garnier, Louise Gateaud, Gaëlle Le-stum, Gaelle Meurice, Fanchon Voisin

GRAFFITI : François Raveau

Creation 2023

Piece for 11 dancers and 1 live musician

duration 60’

DUB

World premiere December 9th 2023 at 20:30 | Festival de Danse Cannes - Côte d’Azur France

Captation captation at Tanz Im August Festival in Berlin filmed August 24, 2024

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A self-taught hip hop dancer, Amala Dianor attended the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers, graduating in 2002. For ten years, he worked as a performer, drawing inspiration from a wide range of techniques. In 2012, he founded his own company after winning two prizes at the 2011 Reconnaissance competition for his first choreography,Crossroad.

The choreographer is quickly identified for the singularity of his elegant and organic writing, which is part of a formal research on movement, at the crossroads of styles. Sliding from one grammar to another with virtuosity, he strips choreographic techniques of their spectacular dimensions to preserve only raw movement. Attracted by the encounter and dialogue between beings, he deploys a dance-fusion that hybridizes forms and opens up a poetics of otherness. Since 2014, he has been working with electro-soul composer Awir Leon, who creates the music for his shows. He also regularly works with musicians, visual artists, actors, writers and calligraphers...

In 2019, he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres medal.

In 2021, with visual artist Grégoire Korganow, he creates a collection of dance films, entitled CinéDanse, which already includes 6 short films that have been chosen in renowned selections. In 2022, he was one of 4 European choreographers selected by the Big Pulse Dance Alliance network. The same year, he presented the Siguifin cooperation project in Europe, aimed at highlighting the creativity of artists based in West Africa, and signed a piece for the South African urban group Via Katlehong, which had its French Premiere at the Avignon Festival. In 2023, the choreographer created a filmed dance concert, Love You, Drink Water, and DUB, a largescale work for 11 dancers from all over the world with live music, in association with composer Awir Leon and visual artist Grégoire Korganow.

Today, his company has 21 pieces and 6 short films in its repertoire, and presents an average of 90 dates a year in France and around the world, with the support of prestigious institutions. A prolific artist, he likes to inscribe his research in perennial territories and pass it on.

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Le Monde

“« A celebration of urban dance. (...) For his new piece, Dub, on tour throughout France, his curiosity and greed led him to meet performers from different styles and countries. Eleven expert performers (...) are featured in this show, conceived along the lines of discoveries and underground evenings spent between Seoul, Paris, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Conceived in close collaboration with composer Awir Leon and visual artist Grégoire Korganow, Dub is a glimpse into the sparkling world of urban dance, often born on the bangs of society, but now taking center stage.»”

Libération

“«(...) young, stylish people (...) chatting, walking (...) and suddenly exploding into a unison of three or four, the time for a joint jump or a fall to the ground, before diffracting in space into tiny satellites. »”

Scène Web

“«A dazzlingly energetic ensemble. In three tableaux, they (the dancers) unfold an international urban dance community, where both their dance and the staging are a sight to behold. »”

La Terrasse

“« Amala Dianor’s skilful construction of this relaxed celebration (...) makes for a show that’s as delightful as it is catchy»”

Schedule

14 DEC 2025 Nantes (44): MIXT BILLETS PRO REQUEST
15 DEC 2025 Nantes (44): MIXT BILLETS PRO REQUEST
18 DEC 2025 Poissy (78): Théâtre de Poissy BILLETS PRO REQUEST
05 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
06 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
07 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
11 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
12 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
13 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
14 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
18 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
19 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
20 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
21 FEB 2026 Paris (75): Le 13e Art BILLETS PRO REQUEST
16 OCT 2025 Saint-brieuc (22): La Passerelle BILLETS PRO REQUEST
28 NOV 2025 Madrid : Festival d'Automne (Madrid) BILLETS PRO REQUEST
29 NOV 2025 Madrid : Festival d'Automne (Madrid) BILLETS PRO REQUEST
13 DEC 2025 Nantes (44): MIXT BILLETS PRO REQUEST

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