Man Rec + M&M - Amala Dianor

Opening up new spaces and flows for dance, cine-dance has produced fully fledged artistic forms of its own.

It is as if we are witnessing a solitary research process: gestures emerge, which the dancer attempts to arrange into short sequences, one way, then another. Subtle, Awir Leon’s music sprinkles the stage with its stellar dust, punctuated by long silences. From explosive surges in long undulations, dizzying spins on the knees, to hypnotic port de bras, Amala Dianor’s choreography combines the energy and precision isolations of urban dance with the linear fluidity of contemporary and classical dance. Weighted by its past, it constantly stretches toward the future.

Between mimicry and echo, challenge and display, the two dancers measure and observe each other, letting themselves be influenced by the other’s movement or momentarily taking the upper hand: Marion Alzieu with the ultra-precision of her trajectories, Mwendwa Marchand with her breathtaking backbends.