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M&M
By working on complementarities rather than differences, Amala Dianor brings out a new artistic expression, between tradition and innovation, discipline and spontaneity. M&M is a spellbinding journey where cultural and artistic boundaries blur, giving way to an immersive experience where beings, music, movement and emotion merge into a single entity.
« Two female artists with very different artistic backgrounds share a stage space to come together, question each other and perhaps complement each other in the gaps left open. One, Marion Alzieu, is a contemporary dancer with a solid academic technique. The other, Mwendwa Marchand, works with dancehall, the urban culture that originated in Jamaica, and its own codes based on riddim music and the principle of repetition. Despite their apparent differences, these two dance styles find a surprising harmony when they share the same stage space. Contemporary dance provides a rigorous structure, a precision that contrasts magnificently with the raw energy and spontaneity of dancehall. The fluid, abstract movements of contemporary dance blend perfectly with the syncopated rhythms and undulations of dancehall, creating a captivating visual and musical dialogue.
In this fusion of styles, each dancer brings her own story and identity into play, enriching the performance with a multitude of perspectives. Marion brings emotional depth and technical sophistication to the choreography, while Mwendwa injects infectious energy and intoxicating sensuality into every movement. And as Marion and Mwendwa explore the contours of this unlikely union between their virtuosities, they reveal the transformative power of dance, capable of creating spaces for encounters that, once opened, spread to infinity.»
CHOREGRAPHER : Amala Dianor
MUSIC : Awir Leon
DANCERS : Marion Alzieu et Mwendwa Marchand
LIGHTS : Nicolas Tallec alternating with Agathe Geffroy
ADMINISTRATION : Valérie Pouleau
TOUR MANAGER : Lucie Jeannenot
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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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La Terrasse
“The duo, which at times veers towards a duel, offers everything we love about dance: the singularity of the two performers, sublimated by their connection, blends elegance and determination, sensitivity and technique. With a smile on their faces at every glance they meet, M&M offer a duet of great beauty.”
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“Amala Dianor marvelously combines the talents of the two performers, demonstrating that complementarity is more than necessary in our world, and that it is a source of energy and emotion”
L'Oeil d'Olivier
“Different, but with the same excellence in the beauty of gesture, the precision of movement, the perception of vibrations. What is at stake here (...) is the intelligence with which the three protagonists (the choreographer and the two dancers) question the notion of « place »”
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