Dyptik
D-Construction

A huge, cage-like, metal scaffolding, at once protecting and restricting dancers, will be set up at the Peiraios 260 Platea. Six French dancers with a background in street dance will employ the style of hip hop and break dance, to the sounds of Arabic music with a modern twist, as a way of expressing rebelliousness, rage and pain, escape and the need for freedom, all of which are especially relevant right now due to the pandemic lockdown we have experienced.

Due to the ongoing pandemic crisis, all performance dates are subject to change

Artistic direction Souhail Marchiche, Mehdi Meghari

Choreography Mehdi Meghari

Sound designer Patrick De Oliveira

Lighting engineer Richard Gratas

Set design Bertrand Nodet

Performers Katia Lharaig, Émilie Tarpin-Lyonnet, Elias Ardoin, Evan Greenaway, Samir El Fatoumi, Yohann Daher,

Co-production Compagnie Dyptik, CNAR l'Abattoir / Chalon-sur-Saône, Quelques p'Arts… Centre National des Arts de la Rue - Scène Rhône-Alpes / Boulieu-lès-Annonay, Groupe des 20 Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, Centre culturel de La Ricamarie, Le Tobbogan - Scène conventionnée Plateau pour la danse / Décines

Partners Conseil Départemental de la Loire, Ville de St Etienne, ADAMI, SPEDIDAM, Théâtre de Tardy (Saint-Etienne), École nationale du cirque de Shems'y (Rabat, Maroc), les villes du Chambon-Feugerolles, l'Horme, St Chamond et St Hilaire de Riez

The Compagnie Dyptik is subsidised by the DRAC and Région Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne and the City of Saint-Étienne