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Level Up ( Extract of Dub)

For his new creation, Amala Dianor draws on the perpetual reinvention of urban dance with 11 young dancers and a live musician. An ode to the energy of the street!

Accompanied by musician/composer Awir Leon, live on stage, the choreographer invites young virtuosos of the new urban dances that are being invented everywhere in underground venues and instantly broadcast around the world via social networks. Amala Dianor, himself a prolific hip-hop dancer, observes how the younger generation draws on their own references to create new gestures, and in turn appropriates these practices to create a new community through a shared, immersive creative process. One of the challenges lies in the artistic encounter between dancers from the USA, South Africa, India and France, all of whom master techniques such as waacking, dancehall, electro, pantsula, new style or krump... Amala Dianor sees Level Up (extract from DUB) as an open, joyful and utopian exploratory space where difference is a richness and people are beings in search of sharing.

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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

SOUND MANAGER : Emmanuel Catty

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR : Valérie Pouleau

TOUR MANAGER : Lucie Jeannenot

PRODUCTION : Kaplan I Cie Amala Dianor, sustained by French State - DRAC Pays de le Loire; Pays de la Loire, Region, City of Angers. Cie Amala Dianor also received the support from Institut français and Onda. The company is also sustained by BNP Paribas Foundation since 2020. Amala Dianor is currently associated artist to Théâtre de Mâcon,Scène nationale (2023-2025).

CO-PRODUCERS : Festival de Danse Cannes - Côte d’Azur France ; Théâtre de la Ville - Paris ; Le Théâtre , scène nationale de Mâcon ; Les Quinconces et l’Espal, Scène nationale Le Mans ; Touka Danses CDCN Guyane ; MC2 : Grenoble, Théâtre Sénart, scène nationale ; Le Volcan, Scène nationale du Havre ; Équinoxe, Scène nationale de Châteauroux ; Julidans-Amsterdam , Pays-Bas ; Maison de la Danse, Lyon ; Le Grand R, scène nationale la Roche-sur-Yon ; Scène nationale d’ALBI - Tarn ; Cndc Angers

CREATION PARTNERS : Fondation BNP Paribas sheltered by Fondation de France ; City of Angers; Région Pays de la Loire, État DRAC. Some tours are supported by ONDA.

RESEARCH RESIDENCY : Villa Albertine, USA, 2023, in partnership with Théâtre de la Ville-Paris.

WORKSHOP AUDITION

Ménagerie de Verre, Paris

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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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Scèneweb

“Un melting pot réjouissant.”

Scène magazine

“Sur le territoire éphémère du plateau jaillit une déferlante de vitalité créative ! La dizaine de danseurs, jeunes virtuoses des danses urbaines 2.0, transforment la scène en un inépuisable terrain de rencontres. Le délicat chorégraphe Amala Dianor les a poussés à inventer de nouveaux espaces, plus mouvants, plus lumineux et plus libres”

Libération

“(…) brille une composition chorégraphique faite de jeux d’échos inattendus dans une ambiance naturaliste de « scène de clubbing ordinaire » «(…) des jeunes gens lookés (…) qui discutent, marchent (…) et explosent soudain en unisson de trois ou quatre, le temps d’un saut commun ou d’une chute au sol, avant de se diffracter dans l’espace en petits satellites”