" For this creation, I will be recruiting urban dancers who are virtuosos of the new and changing dances that are currently developing in underground communities around the world and spreading everywhere via social networks. In association with composer Awir Leon, who will be present live, and visual artist Grégoire Korganow, I will be creating an ephemeral territory for these young people, designed as a meeting place, where they will be able to deploy their creative energy and the vitality of their dance for the duration of a performance.

DUB is not to be understood literally as a creation based on the music of this movement, but rather as a reference to the process of appropriation that is practised in this music, in urban dance and in my work in particular. This logic consists of using the quotation as a primary movement in order to propose its diversion, extension or rupture. Dub draws its musical tracks from acoustic reggae to distort it, bringing out the drums and bass, mixed with electronic sounds to create distant sonic spaces and new electro-atmospheric tonalities. I'm constantly experimenting with and developing this logic applied to movement in my creations. Here, the distortion will be twofold. The dancers have developed a body language that draws on the choreographic references of my generation. They offer them an initial extension opening up new dimensions, new fields. In turn, I want to modulate these new choreographies with the aim of connecting them to each other. I'll be inviting the dancers to shift their practices, diffracting their techniques so that they can open up new spaces for collective creation, even more fluid, even brighter, even freer."

Amala Dianor

After  starting out as a hip hop dancer, Amala Dianor entered the prestigious  CNDC school in Angers (in the class of 2002). From 2002 and for 10  years, he performed as a dancer with a number of choreographers in very  different worlds, including hip hop, neo-classical, contemporary and  afro contemporary (as Emanuel Gat, Hafiz Dhaou et Aicha M’Barek, Régis  Obadia, Farid Berki, Abou Lagraa, Georges Momboye, Françoise et  Dominique Dupuy…). In 2011, he won two prizes at the Reconnaissance  award for his first choreography, named Crossroad and founded his own company, in 2012.

His dance style and vocabulary were immediately identifiable: sliding  from one technique to another with ease and virtuosity, he strips away  the showy, spectacular stuff from his choreographic techniques, keeping  instead only the raw, essential movement. With this deconstructive  process he allows his dancers to experiment with new approaches and  ideas. Drawn to dialogue and the meeting of minds and bodies, he creates  a dance fusion, a hybrid of shapes, a poetics of otherness. Since 2014,  he has worked in close collaboration with the electro-soul composer  Awir Léon, who has written the original music for his pieces. He  occasionally works with other choreographers (among them, Mickael Le  Mer, Pierre Bolo, Annabelle Loiseau, Johanna Faye, BBoy Junior or  Mathias Rassin), musicians (Awir Léon, Koki Nakano, Héloïse Gaillard,  Steve Eton, Eric Aldéa, Yvan Chiossone), a writer (Denis Lachaud), a  calligrapher (Julien Breton), plasticians (Grégoire Korganow, Olivier  Gilquin, Constance Joliff, Clément Débras).

Amala Dianor’s works were – and still are - invited at National  Center for Dance, Pantin and at Festival Suresnes Cités Danse before he  became associated artist to Théâtre Louis Aragon à Tremblay-en-France  (2014-2016), to CDCN Pôle-Sud in Strasbourg (2016-2019) and then to  Centquatre à Paris (2016-2018) and la Maison de la Danse de Lyon  (2019-2021). Since 2018, his works have also been commissioned by  Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. Today, he is associated with Touka Danses, a  CDCN in Guyana (2021-2024), with the Théâtre de Macon, scène nationale  (2022-2024) and les Quinconces-l’Espal, scène nationale le Mans (2021  2024). Since 2020, Kaplan I Cie Amala Dinaor is sustained by Fondation  BNP Paribas and has 18 creations in his repertory, ranging from large  form works to solos, and has performed more than 80 times a year in  France and abroad. Its touring is supported by the French Institute and  ONDA.

Among his repertory, Amala Dianor performs the solo Man Rec (‘Me only’ in wolof), the duet Extension with the Break dance star BBoy Junior or the trio Quelque-part au milieu de l’infini(‘Somewhere  in the middle of the infinite’). ). In 2019, he created his first major  work for nine dancers to whom he taught his special blend of styles and  techniques; the work was called The Falling Stardust and is currently touring. In 2021, he creates the trio Point Zéro,  which he performs with his friends Johanna Faye (co-director of  F.A.I.R.E, CCNR), et Mathias Rassin (multiple top rock world champion)  and a solo Wo-Man for a dancer with whom he rewrites a feminine version of his solo Man Rec.  In 2021, intending to expand his audiences in new directions, he began  working with the plastician Grégoire Korganow; they created a series of  short films called CinéDanse, its first episode, Nioun Rec,  in collaboration with FranceTV, was selected as one of the dance films  in the catalogue of the prestigious Villa Albertine in the USA. In 2021,  Amala Dianor is one of the four European choreographers to be selected  and supported by the program Big Pulse Dance Network (Creative Europe). In 2022, Amala Dianor was commissioned to create a work for eight South African dancers by Via Katlehong,

which will premiere at the 2022 Avignon Festival. He has also  committed to training pre-professional dancers in France - as he did for  instance in 2020 with the dance/theater collaboration entitled Urgence which was created at Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2021 - and then in Western Africa with his project Siguifin  (‘magical monster’ in bambara), a collective creation with the  choreographers Ladji Koné, Alioune Diagne and Naomi Fall, for nine  dancers from Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal, and the work Premiered in  2022 at Suresnes Cités Danse.

Amala Dianor has received the Médaille de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2019.

Source : The Amala Dianor Company 's website

More information : amaladianor.com

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