Maldonne
choreography: Leïla Ka
assistant to choreographer: Jane Fournier Dumet
light design: Laurent Fallot
light management: Laurent Fallot or Clara Coll Bigot
sound design: Rodrig De Sa or Manon Garnier
performers: Océane Crouzier, Jennifer Dubreuil Houthemann, Jane Fournier Dumet, Leïla Ka, Zoé Lakhnati, Jade Logmo, Mathilde Roussin
premiere: National Stage of Cavaillon, 2023
duration: 55’
production: Centquatre Paris and Cie Leïla Ka
support: La Garance – Scène nationale de Cavaillon, Théâtre Malakoff – Scène nationale, Théâtre d’Angoulême – Scène nationale, Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar – festival Suresnes Cités Danse 2024, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – Direction Maud Le Pladec, Centre Chorégraphique National – Ballet de Lorraine direction Petter Jacobsson dans le cadre de l’Accueil-studio, Les Quinconces et L’Espal – Scène nationale du Mans, Espaces Pluriels – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création – Danse de Pau, La Manufacture – CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux/La Rochelle, La Passerelle – Scène nationale de Saint-Brieuc, Fondation Royaumont, Espace 1789 – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création pour la danse de Saint-Ouen – Le Quatrain – équipement culturel de Clisson Sèvre et Maine Agglo, Ville de Gouesnou – Centre Henri Queffélec Mécénat Caisse des Dépôts. Aide à la résidence Fondation Royaumont/Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.
Five female dancers perform in forty different dresses – evening dresses, wedding dresses, night dresses, casual dresses and ball dresses. Sequined, long, puffy, fitted and oversized. Dresses that fly, that shine, that burst, that spin, that trail on the ground or fall. “Maldonne” is a highly evocative piece that explores the fragilities, rebellion and multiple identities that co-exist within femininity.
After the international success of her first three multi-awarded works “Pode ser”, “C'est toi que on adore” and “Se faire la belle”, Leïla Ka created “Maldonne”, a group piece infused with the same tense rage. Nominated for the International Dance Prize at Saddler’s Wells in London, the piece features five women, 40 dresses and a burning desire for freedom. Entering through the doors of urban dancers, the young woman does not go to school, traces a trajectory off the beaten track of academicism. After being performed in the famous piece “May B” by the emblematic choreographer Maguy Marin, Leïla Ka created her own choreographies nourished by her urban and contemporary influences. Today she is an associated artist at Centquatre in Paris - national stage of Cavaillon and Dieppe.
Both powerfully theatrical and fearsomely precise, her dance “grabs you by the guts” in an emotion which is all the more intense as it is carried by a monster talent and renewed aesthetics.
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