Yoann Bourgeois will leave his position as director of CCN2 Grenoble at the end of 2022. The recruitment panel, made up of representatives from Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, the Department of Isère, the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region, the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Ministry of Culture, the governing bodies of the association, met to preselect 4 applications in solo or duo. The final decision will be taken in mid-September for a start on January 1, 2023.
Aina Alegre and Yannick Hugron
photo by Christophe Raynaud de Lage
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Born in 1986 in Barcelona, Aina Alegre is a choreographer, dancer and actress. After a multidisciplinary training combining dance, theater and singing in Barcelona, she joined the CNDC in Angers in 2007, under the direction of Emmanuelle Huynh.
Aina thinks of choreographic creation as a field to reinvent the body, to “fictionalize” it. She is interested in very different cultures and bodily practices, understood as so many constructions, social and historical representations, in order to question them and translate them into a physical experience, giving them a choreographic perspective. She thus articulates different choreographic objects constructed from different media: pieces for the stage, performances, videos.
In 2009 Aina co-signed the duo SPEED and in 2011 she created the performance LA MAJA DESNUDA DICE, this proposal led to the creation of the piece NO SE TRATA DE UN DESNUDO MITOLOGICO in 2012. In 2015 she created the piece DELICES and in 2017 , THE DAY OF THE BEAST.
In collaboration with Hadrien Touret, she transposes certain performances into “cinematographic essays” such as the film 12 45 84 (2010), TRIPARIA (2011) and DELICES (2014).
At the same time, since 2010, she has collaborated as a performer with other choreographers and directors: Vincent Thomasset, Lorenzo di Angelis, Betty Tchomanga, Fabrice Lambert, Enora Rivière, David Wampach, Vincent Macaigne, among others.
Yannick Hugron trained at the National Choreographic Center of Montpellier as well as at the National Conservatory of Lyon. He joined Jean-Claude Gallotta’s CCN de Grenoble in 1998 until his departure in 2016. He took part in almost all of the choreographer’s pieces as well as in several repertoire transmissions in France and abroad. At the same time, he participates in many projects with in particular: Annabel Bonnery, the people of Uterpan, the Pole. In 2005, he co-founded the Kayaku project group in Japan, a collective of artists from different backgrounds.
Characteristics of Dianor
Self-taught with a brilliant career as a hip hop dancer, Amala Dianor joined the graduate school of the Center National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers in 2000. From 2002 and for ten years, he worked as a performer for renowned choreographers from various worlds (Régis Obadia, Farid Berki, Abou Lagraa, Georges Momboye, Françoise and Dominique Dupuy, Hafiz Dhaou and Aicha M’Barek, Emanuel Gat, etc.). In 2011, he won two prizes at the Reconnaissance competition for his first choreography, entitled Crossroad and created his company in 2012.
The choreographer is very quickly identified in the world of dance for the singularity of his elegant and organic writing which is part of a formal research on movement, at the crossroads of styles. Sliding from one grammar to another with virtuosity (hip hop, neo-classical, contemporary, Afro-contemporary…), he strips choreographic techniques of their spectacular dimensions to retain only raw movements. Thanks to this process of deconstruction, he allows performers to experiment with new gestural paths. Attracted by the encounter and the dialogue between beings, he deploys a dance-fusion that hybridizes forms and opens up a poetics of otherness. Since 2014, he has been working with the complicity of the electro-soul composer Awir Léon who creates the original music of his shows. He occasionally works with choreographers (Mickael Le Mer, Pierre Bolo and Annabelle Loiseau, Johanna Faye, BBoy Junior, Mathias Rassin, etc.), musicians (Awir Léon, Koki Nakano, Héloïse Gaillard, Steve Eton, Eric Aldéa and Yvan Chiossone ), a writer (Denis Lachaud), a calligrapher (Julien Breton), visual artists (Grégoire Korganow, Olivier Gilquin and Constance Joliff, Clément Débras, etc.).
Invited to create at the Center National de la Danse or at Suresnes Cités danse, then associate artist at the Louis Aragon Theater in Tremblay-en-France (2014-2016) and at the CDCN Pôle-Sud in Strasbourg (2016-2019), he is also associated with the Centquatre in Paris (2016-2018) then supported by the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (since 2018) and artist associated with the Maison de la Danse de Lyon-European Pole of Creation (2019-2021), at the Quinconces-l ‘Espal, national stage in Le Mans as well as Touka Danses, CDCN Guyane (2021-2024) and at the Théâtre de Macon national stage (2022-2024). Kaplan I Cie Amala Dianor has received support from the BNP Paribas Foundation since 2020. It now has eighteen pieces in its repertoire and broadcasts an average of 80 dates per year in France and around the world, with the support of institutions such as the French Institute or the ONDA…
Among her pieces, Amala Dianor notably performs her solo Man Rec (‘Only me’ in Wolof in 2014), the duet Extension (2014) with the break star BBoy Junior or the trio Somewhere in the Middle of the Infinite (2016 ). In 2019, he signed his first great form for nine dancers to whom he transmitted his mixed gestures, entitled The Falling Stardust and currently still on tour. In 2021, he created two new short pieces: the Point Zéro trio, which he performed with his dancer friends Johanna Faye (co-director of FAIRE, CCN de Rennes), and Mathias Rassin (multiple top rock world champion); and the solo Wo-Man with which he prolongs the writing of his own solo Man Rec. In 2021, in search of new connected audiences, he joined forces with visual artist Grégoire Korganow and invented a series of creative short films entitled CinéDanse, the first opus of which, entitled Nioun Rec, is broadcast on culturebox.fr as part of Monuments in Motion and selected from the Villa Albertine’s catalog of dance films in the United States.
In 2022, Amala Dianor is one of the four European choreographers elected by the Big Pulse Dance Alliance network (Creative Europe). The same year, Amala Dianor chose to respond to a commission from Via Katlehong for eight South African performers to be premiered at the Avignon 2022 festival.
Satchie Noro
Satchie Noro took his first steps in the dojo of his father, an Aikido master. From childhood, she practiced classical dance intensively. She is a pupil of Wilfride Piollet. At sixteen, she joined the Deutsch Opera in Berlin, which she left very quickly to rub shoulders with the Berlin alternative scene, where she took part in numerous performances. After five years of peregrinations from Berlin to New York, she returned to France, where she joined various dance companies. In 2002, she studied aerial techniques at Michel Nowak’s Noctambules de Nanterre circus school. In recent years, she has collaborated with directors Adrien Mondot & Claire Bardainne, Carlotta Sagna, James Thierrée, Michel Shweizer, Mohamed El Khatib, Emmanuelle Raynaut, Pierre Meunier & Marguerite Bordat…
Since 2002, she also leads her own projects with her company Furinkaï. Since the fall of 2015, she co-directs with Olivier Verzelen the circus school and Place de Fabrique Les Noctambules de Nanterre. In 1999, she won with Alain Rigout from Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto) and in 2012 the Hors-les-murs grant from the French Institute.
Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz
Spotted for some time within the emerging creation on the European stages, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, Portuguese performers and choreographers, initiated their work in tandem in 2006. They travel through unexpected territories of the body while seeking its relationship to speech. , to speech.
Both have previously trained in contemporary dance and have also participated as performers in the work of renowned choreographers, such as Jan Fabre for the former or Wim Vandekeybus for the latter.
Through an extremely precise cutting of scenes in which the spoken and musical language is shared with laser-cut gestures, they create an unusual and virtuoso form.
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