DUB

“For this creation, I will be recruiting urban dancers who are virtuosos of the new and changing dances that are currently developing in underground communities around the world and spreading everywhere via social networks. In association with composer Awir Leon, who will be present live, and visual artist Grégoire Korganow, I will be creating an ephemeral territory for these young people, designed as a meeting place, where they will be able to deploy their creative energy and the vitality of their dance for the duration of a performance.

DUB is not to be understood literally as a creation based on the music of this movement, but rather as a reference to the process of appropriation that is practised in this music, in urban dance and in my work in particular. This logic consists of using the quotation as a primary movement in order to propose its diversion, extension or rupture. Dub draws its musical tracks from acoustic reggae to distort it, bringing out the drums and bass, mixed with electronic sounds to create distant sonic spaces and new electro-atmospheric tonalities. I’m constantly experimenting with and developing this logic applied to movement in my creations. Here, the distortion will be twofold. The dancers have developed a body language that draws on the choreographic references of my generation. They offer them an initial extension opening up new dimensions, new fields. In turn, I want to modulate these new choreographies with the aim of connecting them to each other. I’ll be inviting the dancers to shift their practices, diffracting their techniques so that they can open up new spaces for collective creation, even more fluid, even brighter, even freer.”

Amala Dianor