Amala Dianor: Dance Beyond Categories

After performing for numerous hip-hop and contemporary choreographers, Amala Dianor founded his own company in 2012. Drawing on contemporary, neo-classical, and African dance, this Senegalese-born artist is one of the few to renew hip-hop vocabulary, liberating it from its prescribed forms. He also enjoys sharing the stage with dancers whose approach differs from his own. The Séquence Danse festival at Centquatre presents two of his works: “Man Rec”, derived from a Wolof expression meaning “Only Me,” a solo serving as a personal identity card performed by Dianor himself, and his new creation, “Somewhere in the Middle of Infinity.”