À Bientôt is a creation whose title evokes the feeling of putting everything back into play, while keeping what may have happened, to start a new story.

One day, one departure.

Both the beginning and the end of a journey.

It's a simple shift in space and time. 

A tearing away.

This creation puts the body to work. It oscillates between armour and carnal envelope, and reveals itself in multiple facets, in constant mutation. Home to the soul and the spirit, it finds the answers to our questions with instinct and sometimes brutality. 

On this winding path, a process of introspection begins that proves to be the starting point of a journey towards the self, giving us a glimpse of what might seem insignificant, but could turn out to be the essential. With their raw, contrasting dance, these women embark on a great journey, drawing us in and encouraging us to step outside ourselves. It's about bodies, space, memories and stories. A journey in all its forms.

This piece, premiered in 2021, is the winner of the Sobanova Choreography Competition in 2019, the Synodales and Choreography 38 in Hanover (Germany) in 2024.

‘I like to think about dance wherever I am. Curious and a traveller at heart, I develop a dance that is grounded, fluid and committed. In creation, I place the body at the centre of my thinking and like to articulate it as raw material around its contradictions and limits.

A journey, an encounter, a memory, a sensation - all these points are sources of inspiration and allow me to explore our relationship with others from different angles.

 In my perpetual quest for the present moment, as a choreographer I am committed to systematically offering the dancers a space for play, the unknown and experimentation, which can take a variety of forms. For me, this search for spaces of freedom is a way of highlighting the individual and the group.

Born in French Guyana, Johana Malédon trained at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, the Alvin Ailey School in New York, the Pôle Supérieur Paris Boulogne Billancourt in Paris and the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel, before obtaining a DNSPD jazz, a DE jazz and a Licence en Art du Spectacle at the Université Paris VIII.

At the same time, and since 2019, she has been working as a performer for Léo Lérus, Kristina Alleyne, Abou Lagraa & Nawal Aït Benalla, Fouad Boussouf and Sylvain Groud, among others.

She founded the MÂLE company in 2019 following the Sobanova Choreographic Competition, which she won with her first piece entitled ‘À Bientôt’, which was presented in France and internationally. In 2022, she became associate artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre under the direction of Fouad Boussouf, then associate artist at the Beffroi de Montrouge in 2024. She has also created a number of pieces in response to commissions, including ‘Chevalier virtuose: strate(s)’ for the Nuit Blanche 2024 at the Carreau du Temple, ‘À Bientôt’ for the Jeune Ballet Calabash and the Ensemble Chorégraphique de Guyane, ‘Ha Chi Ko’ for Danse en Seine, and ‘La Foule’ for Sobanova, to name but a few.

Passionate about movement because I started out as a dancer, photography and video have been my new passions for a few years now.

I love immortalising other artists in action, knowing that we are all artists in some way.

La.V.A, which stands for La Vie d'artiste (Artist's life), was the perfect name for me.

MÂLE was founded in 2019 as a dance company based in Montrouge in the Paris region. It is made up of women who share a desire to give themselves a voice through their bodies, in space and in time. Over time, the company's choreographic approach has become a blend of physicality and instinct, using the body to question our relationship with the other(s) and with ourselves through the other(s). 

She currently has 3 creations, one of which is in progress: À Bientôt (2021), 40 (2023) and (working title) (2025). As well as being a creative tool, the company is determined to make its mark over time as a vehicle for education and exchange, and likes to exploit the unifying nature of its creations and its approach.