Amala Dianor

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.

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Tickets

Full Price 38 / 33 / 25/ 17 €
Reduced 25 / 17 / 10 / 9 €

We offer a special Youth ticket for this performance. Children and young people up to the age of 14 pay a special price of 5 € when accompanied by an adult ticket holder. 

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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