Dansarna
Elodie Antonio
Elodie is an internationally recognized French dancer and choreographer, known for her versatility in styles such as hip hop, Afro, and high heels. She has worked with several international choreographers and has appeared on TV, in music videos, and on stage.
Elodie Antonio
Julie Laventure
“My dance is hybrid. I combine my contemporary core with the power of urban dance: floorwork, organicity, with the rupture of footwork from house dance culture, the percussive intensity borrowed from Krump and popping. What we all share is the same “label” – outside the majority. When we dance together, we cannot lie. Nicolas had us work on our body and emotional connections. There is a lot of softness in the choreography. Paradoxically, this softness allows us to face reality with power. With joy too, despite the struggle. African culture tends to move towards the sun, towards everything that is clear and bright.”
Julie Laventure (in the middle of the picture)
Leïla Miretti
”My dance style is characterised by hip-hop and house dance movements. A mixture of Afro-Caribbean, Latino and traditional African dances, house conveys a message of unity, dialogue and sharing. My body movements are quite fluid. When I dance, I try to be inspired by the movement of water. I dance with a certain softness, my movements are centred in my legs and dissociations of the body. There is something very intimate about this show. We are speaking with our bodies, to claim that we can all be different and dance with
any body shape.”
Leïla Miretti (first in the picture)
Stéphie Téhoué
” My preferred style is hip-hop. But my movements are also influenced by popping (a kind of funk), house and Afro style. When I dance, first I close my eyes and then I let myself go. The first thing I move is in my chest. Then my arms. And then, once I feel more at ease, I open my eyes. For me, dance is in the body but especially in the heart. This show is about asserting our identities as women and as Black women. We’ve always had the feeling that we don’t belong. I feel like I have to fight three times as hard as anyone else to get what I deserve. That’s why this show has been like therapy for me.”
Stéphie Téhoué (in the middle of the picture)
Mayvis William
” I specialise in house dance and hip-hop. House reflects a mix of several cultures. I like this style of dance because I can just be myself. Celebrating the diversity of Black women is something I feel very strongly about. This show can reach all generations. If I’d seen a group and a performance like this when I was 15, it would have really inspired me. To understand the spirit of our movements, Nicolas gave us the image of a school of fish in pursuit. Some leave and then return, but they move simultaneously and are connected. I don’t dance just for myself, but for the other dancers and for those who are not onstage. I think of all the people who have told me their stories and who I’ve told mine to.”
Mayvis William (first in the picture)
Nicholas Huchard
Nicolas Huchard has been dancing his whole life. He was only six when he choreographed his first dance. Since then, he’s danced for the world’s greats: Jean Paul Gaultier, Marion Motin, Madonna, Maurice Béjart. He became one of the queens of Christine and the Queens fame, and he’s worked with musicians Angèle, Suzane and Aya Nakamura. Each collaboration is an exploration of boundaries – between softness and strength, between feminine and masculine, between continents and disciplines. Nicolas Huchard likes rough edges – which create uniqueness. The launch of his company in 2018 embodies this exploration, its values and its struggles. It’s a political terrain where dance inscribes activism in bodies: in “social dance”.
Nicholas Huchard
Dani Olivier
Dani has lived several lives. A graduate of HEC business school after studying mathematics, Dani has also explored different forms of artistic expression throughout his career as an entrepreneur in the media and publishing world. Dani has lived in Africa and is involved in many eco-sustainable projects, particularly in Senegal. For Le Matin, Dani created geometric light projections that reveal the dancers’ bodies in a dreamlike, almost magical way. Through these projections, light plays a demiurgic role: it makes bodies disappear, then bloom. Augmented bodies that give birth to a new horizon.
Projections made by Dani Olivier
