Amala Dianor

After starting out as a hip hop dancer, Amala Dianor entered the prestigious CNDC school in Angers (in the class of 2002). He then performed for 10 years as a dancer with a number of choreographers in very different worlds, including hip hop, neo-classical, contemporary and afro contemporary. In 2012, he founded his own company, and his dance style and vocabulary were immediately identifiable: sliding from one technique to another with ease and virtuosity, with a hybrid approach to shape, and a poetic approach to the issue of ‘otherness’. 

Since he created his first solo Man Rec in 2014, he has worked in close collaboration with the electro-soul composer Awir Leon, who has written the original music for his pieces. He also often collaborates with other choreographic artists, composers, writers and plasticians. In 2019, he created his first major work for nine dancers to whom he taught his special blend of styles and techniques; the work was called The Falling Stardust and is currently touring. In 2021, he creates two new short-pieces: the trio Point Zéro, which he will perform with his dancer/ choreographer friends Johanna Faye and Mathias Rassin (multiple top rock world champion) and a solo, Wo-Man,for a dancer with whom he rewrites a feminine version of his solo Man Rec. In 2021, intending to expand his audiences in new directions, he began working with the visual artist Grégoire Korganow; they created a series of short films called CinéDanse, from wich the two episodes Nioun Rec and We Insist were selected as dance films for the catalogue of the prestigious Villa Albertine in the USA. 

In 2022, Amala Dianor is selected and supported by the program Big Pulse Dance Network (Creative Europe). He has also committed to training pre-professional dancers in France and since 2018 in Western Africa with his project Siguifin, a collective creation with the choreographers Ladji Koné, Alioune Diagne and Naomi Fall, for nine dancers from Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal. Siguifin premiered in 2022 at Suresnes Cités Danse. The same year, Amala Dianor was commissioned to create a work for 8 South African dancers by Via Katlehong, which will premiere at the 2022 Avignon Festival.