Amala Dianor, the choreographer who breaks down the boundaries of dance

DUB at the 13e Art.

Review — In DUB, at the 13e Art theatre in Paris, he skillfully orchestrates eleven dancers, each with their own specialty, and sets the stage ablaze.

"Rarely does a show ignite audiences to this extent. DUB is a phenomenon. It has been performed and revived for two years now because nothing else quite compares.”

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“On stage, the eleven performers have no agenda other than to play on their singularities and bring them together to see what happens when boundaries dissolve. Awir Leon, a dazzling DJ, leads the way, moving through rhythms, galloping across each performer’s virtuosity until a fever rises and spreads to the audience, where heads, arms, and feet are swept along. The beauty of DUB lies in its subtlety. Less carefully conceived, the piece could easily descend into chaos. Instead, from beginning to end, it remains a celebration in which every dance dazzles, cut like a diamond by its finest interpreter before blending back into the group: forms are freed, transgressed, boundaries are broken without losing oneself.”

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“Dianor does not merely advocate the idea ‘Tell me how you dance, and I’ll tell you who you are.’ He opens dance up to the possibility of sharing—an utopia already dreamed of by Paul Fort in his Round Dance Around the World.”

Ariane Bavelier