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Recording: 2024-08-24 , Haus der Berliner Festspiele (Video © Bickmann & Kolde GbR)

Amala Dianor

DUB

Tanz im August | Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Production Details / Press Releases

Short dance choreographies have been a huge trend on social media in recent years. Amala Dianor’s new creation honours the exuberant creativity and sheer vitality of this art form, which has developed both in festive underground venues and on the internet. Eleven young urban dancers, each trained in differing dance forms, virtuously fathom the choreographic range between individual demonstrations of skill and collective synchronising. Accompanied by the live music of Awir Leon, they move through a landscape of large stacked cubes, in which every motion can become viral. “DUB” celebrates the resistance of movement and people to categorisation.

Artist’s Note by Amala Dianor
“For this new work, I worked with young urban dancers. virtuosic and specialized in the new dances being developed underground, live and online, which are being broadcast and shared everywhere on social media. I’m working with the electro composer Awir Leon playing live onstage as well with the visual artist Grégoire Korganow, creating an ephemeral space onstage for this international group of young dancers, a special meeting place which for the length of the piece will highlight their creative energy and the incredible vitaliy of their dancing. DUB should not be understood literally as a creation set to this kind of music, more as a reference to the process of appropriation which is often prevalent in this music, in urban dancing and in my work in particular. The rationale consists of using the quoted movement as a first step but then immediately proposing something that hijacks, lengthens, twists or breaks it. A dub pulls its musical passages from acoustic reggae, distorting it, first highlighting the drums and the bass, blending it with electronic sounds, thereby creating far off acoustic spaces and new electro-atmospheric tonalities. Applying the same rationale to movement, I experiment with it and am constantly developing it in my pieces. Here, we are looking at a double distortion: the young dancers have developed a vocabulary which is rooted in the choreographic references of my generation, offering them an expanse of new dimensions, new areas. Then I modify the choreography to connect it from within. I will invite the dancers to change their practices, scattering and diffusing parts of their technique so that they may open new collective creative spaces for themselves, more active, more luminous, infinitely more free.”
Amala Dianor

After starting out as a hip hop dancer, Amala Dianor entered the prestigious CNDC school in Angers (in the class of 2002). In 2012, he founded his own company. Since he created his first solo “Man Rec” in 2014, he has worked in close collaboration with Awir Leon, who has written the original music for his pieces.
In 2019, he created “The Falling Stardust”, in 2021 “Point Zéron” and “Wo-Man”. In 2021 he began working with Grégoire Korganow; they created a series of short films.
In 2022, Amala Dianor is selected and supported by the program Big Pulse Dance Network. He has also committed to training pre-professional dancers in France and since 2018 in Western Africa with his project Siguifin, a collective creation with the choreographers Ladji Koné, Alioune Diagne and Naomi Fall. The same year, Amala Dianor was commissioned to create a work for South African dancers by Via Katlehong.
www.amaladianor.com

[Source: tanzimaugust.de]

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Cast & Credits

Choreographer: Amala Dianor
Visual artist: Grégoire Korganow
Live music: Awir Leon
With: 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
Light design: Nicolas Tallec
Costume design: Minuit Deux, Fabrice Couturier
Sound manager: Emmanuel Catty
Stage manager: David Normand, Thibaut Trilles
Executive director: Mélanie Roger
Set technical manager: Véronique Charbit
Tour manager: Lucie Jeannenot
Set construction: Juan Cariou, Fabienne Desfleches, Paul Dufayet, Valentin Dumeige, Moïse Elkaout, Manon Garnier, Louise Gateaud, Gaëlle Le-stum, Gaelle Meurice, Fanchon Voisin
Graffiti: François Raveau
Technische Leitung: Nicolas Barrot
Stage technician (Berliner Festspiele): Benjamin Brandt, Karin Hornemann, Christine Kobsarew, Fred Langkau, Anne LeLievre, Jelena Marinkovic, Mirko Neugart, Juliane Schüler, Manuel Solms
Lighting technician (Berliner Festspiele): Mark Harnisch, Kathrin Kausche, Jens Tuch, Sachiko Zimmermann-Tajima
Sound technician (Berliner Festspiele): Jan-Hendrik Bruchwalski, Giacomo Hofmann, Alexandros Itsodelis, Martin Trümper, Brook Yacob
Costume management (Tanz im August): Simon Kernen

Production: Kaplan | Cie Amala Dianor, sustained by French State – DRAC Pays de le Loire, Pays de la Loire Region, City of Angers
Co-Production: 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 du Mans, Touka Danses CDCN Guyane, MC2: Grenoble, Théâtre Sénart / Scène nationale, Le Volcan / Scène nationale du Havre, Équinoxe / Scène nationale de Châteauroux, Julidans Amsterdam, 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
Residencies: Villa Albertine USA, in partnership with Théâtre de la Ville-Paris. Paris Le Moulin Fondu, Oposito – CNAREP, Garges- lès-Gonesse
Workshop Audition: Ménagerie de Verre Paris
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 Touka Danses, CDCN GUYANE (2021–2024), Théâtre de Mâcon, Scène nationale (2023–2025) and Les Quinconces et l’Espal, Scène nationale Le Mans (2021–2024).
With the support of Institut français and French Ministry of Culture/DGCA.
In cooperation with Berliner Festspiele.

Tanz im August 2024
Artistic Director: Ricardo Carmona
Executive Producer Festival: Stefan Nagel
Producer & Dramaturge: Alina Lauer
Producer & Team Assistance: Luzie Barzen
Production: Mascha Euchner-Martinez
Production Associates: Carim Sol Al Samarraie, Feli Braun, Arantxa Ciafrino, Sophie Hübner, Lu Yu Zou
Technical Director Festival: Ingo Ruggenthaler
Tanz im August is a festival by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund.

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Video Documentation

The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):

University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)

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