Le Gymnase and the LOOP network have devised a new commissioning cycle focused on very young children : Les mouvements minuscules (tiny movements).
The choreographer Amala Dianor is invited to create the next opus in November 2024.
Coquilles – Amala Dianor
For all ages from 1 year upwards
(accessible for daycares and pre-schools)
in‑situ or on stage
around 30 minutes – followed by a meeting
For his first creation for young audiences, Amala Dianor is bringing together two performers with two different physicalities. The choreographer, known for blending styles and forms, questions the dancers’ vocabulary and identity.
How can the contrasts be blurred to brush aside the expected and detect a shared language? In this quest, the bodies spurn their mechanics and skirt around their origins so that the gesture is liberated and becomes intermingled. Energies add up and ultimately find their own orchestration, resonating with the very young.
Conception, choreography : Amala Dianor
Performance: Lucie Benhalima Dubois, Bryan Kpabja, Milane Cathala-Di Fabrizio, Estanis Radureau, Chloé Wanner (two performers alternating)
Artistic assistant: Alexandre Galopin
Costume: Camille Pénager
Light: Nicolas Tallec
With the voice of : Michael Nana
Production: Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts‑de‑France as part of the choreographic commissioning project Les mouvements minuscules (Tiny Movements)
Coproduction: Fonds LOOP – professional network dance and youth, Cndc – Angers, Le Théâtre – Scène nationale de Mâcon, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle Aquitaine Bordeaux-La Rochelle, Escales Danses – Réseau conventionné danse en territoire, CND Centre national de la danse, Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine Saint-Denis, L’ échangeur ‑ CDCN Hauts‑de‑France, Opéra de Limoges, Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris, Chaillot théâtre national de la danse
Support: Fonds Génération Belle Saison
24-25
7 to 9 November 2024
previews at Cndc – Angers with the support of Théâtre de l’Hôtel de Ville in Saint-Barthélemy-d’Anjou – Zone de Turbulence festival
12 to 18 November 2024
PREMIERE
Le Gymnase CDCN, Roubaix – Forever Young festival
18 to 30 November 2024
Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine Saint-Denis – Playground festival
> 18 to 20 November 2024 : Opéra Bastille, Paris
> 22 and 23 November 2024 : Centre Culturel Jean-Houdremont, La Courneuve
> 26 to 28 November 2024 : CN D, Pantin
> 29 and 30 November 2024 : Le Pavillon – Un neuf trois Soleil !, Romainville
17 to 21 December 2024
Le Grand Bleu, Lille
18 and 19 December 2024
Maison des Métallos, Paris
11 and 15 January 2025
Le Théâtre • Mâcon Scène nationale
5 to 8 February 2025
Théâtre Le Ciel, Lyon
12 to 15 February 2025
La Manufacture CDCN – Pouce !
> 12 February 2025 : Espace culturel du Bois Fleuri, Lormont
> 14 and 15 February 2025 : La Manufacture • La Rochelle
6 to 8 March 2025
Théâtre de Vanves
13 to 22 March 2025
Atelier de Paris CDCN – daycare tour
16 March 2025
Centre culturel Jacques Prévert, Villeparisis – Les petits mômes en famille
22 and 23 March 2025
Petits et Grands, Nantes
25 and 26 March 2025
Saumur
15 to 17 May 2025
BRONKS, Brussel (BE)
Amala Dianor, choreographer
After starting out as a hip hop dancer, Amala Dianor entered the prestigious CNDC school in Angers (in the class of 2002). His dance style and vocabulary were immediately identifiable: sliding from one technique to another with ease and virtuosity, he strips away the showy, spectacular stuff from his choreographic techniques, keeping instead only the raw, essential movement. With this deconstructive process he allows his dancers to experiment with new approaches and ideas.
Drawn to dialogue and the meeting of minds and bodies, he creates a dance fusion, a hybrid of shapes, a poetics of otherness. Cie Amala Dianor has 18 creations in his repertory, ranging from large form works to solos, and has performed more than 80 times a year in France and abroad. In 2022, Amala Dianor is one of the four European choreographers to be selected and supported by the program Big Pulse Dance Network (Creative Europe). Amala Dianor has received the Médaille de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2019.
To Amala Dianor’s websiteles mouvements minuscules
(tiny movements)
a choreographic commissioning project for young children
Le Gymnase and the LOOP network have devised a new commissioning project focused on very young children: Les mouvements minuscules (tiny movements).
This programme invites a choreographer to create a short form intended for very young children, to be performed in‑situ (e.g. daycares and nursery schools) or on stage. Les mouvements minuscules project is entrusted to an artist whose writing is powerful and singular, who is uncompromising when it comes to aesthetics. The aim of this new project is to encourage choreographic artists to create for very young children, an age group where dance offers are particularly limited.
Will be invited, seasoned choreographers who can devise demanding and inventive formats that are nevertheless adapted to the performance settings, such as venues and spaces designed for very young children.
Around this new project, a programme of teaching offers is being designed specifically for people who work with small children and their families.
The first composition in Les mouvements minuscules series, a piece called Le petit B created by the choreographer Marion Muzac, premiered in late 2022.
The choreographer Amala Dianor is invited to create the next opus, Coquilles, in November 2024.
