“Although b-boying is at the origin of my dance, I quickly expanded  my playing field to embrace numerous influences beyond hip hop. This  fusion of influences now informs the various projects I’ve carried out,  whether solo, in pairs, or in a collective, always paying close  attention to the diversity of backgrounds and the concept of the group. I  thus aim primarily to showcase self-taught performers and blur the  boundaries between stage and audience, performance space and outside it,  and to create spaces that encourage dialog.”

Témoin [Witness] came out of several years of working with  self-taught dancers, who are “witnesses” to their time, their dance,  their generation. How we engage in improvisation fuels the choreography  which is propelled by the dynamics of deep listening and the impetus of  the encounter.

In the mid-90s, the style produced by the Parisian b-boying scene stunned the world with a new vision of breakdance. Wild Cat,  Saïdo Lehlouh’s first choreographic attempt, created in 2018,  foregrounds this style distinguished by its fluidity and its truly  feline refinement. The dancer and choreographer’s stint as a breaker  with the Bad Trip Crew informs the sincerity of his gesture which tends  toward introspection and submission to gravity while lending explosive  force to his performance within the circle.

Having cut his teeth on street dance, the choreographer offers an  alternative sequel to his début show with his 2019 composition, Apaches.  Saïdo Lehlouh makes use of the authenticity afforded by improvisation  in a versatile stage piece that perpetually adapts to the context of  each performance. Whether in a public space or on stage, Apaches  arranges bodies and sets them to rhythm in a transitional space where  the circulating energies and sincere intentionality are the message.

By taming the floor through touch, “Darwin” continuously builds a  corporal vocabulary responsive to the needs of the moment. With his  partner Johanna Faye, the other member of the Black Sheep dance company,  Saïdo Lehlouh explores in Iskio (2015), and later in Fact (2017), the possibilities of speaking out in a choreographic dialog. Together, Saïdo Lehlouh and Johanna Faye created Earthbound (2021),  a celebration through dance of the rebel and underground hip hop  scene’s diversity which questions the stage’s performative codes.

Saïdo Lehlouh is associate artist fo Théâtre de la Ville-Paris and Cratère, scène nationale of Alès.

Source:  CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc).
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.

Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

More information: fabione.fr