Logos 2019 review: "C'est toi qu'on adore"

"C'est toi qu'on adore"

After an initial solo, focused on the multiplicities of the relationship with oneself, No Chão deals with the ambiguity of the relationship with the other. Taking the form of a duet, which is the minimum measure for creating community, the piece presents itself as an allegory of life in a sinuous trajectory, made up of moments of victory and others of weakness, of power relations that are continually overturned.

In No Chão, "on the ground" in Portuguese, Leïla Ka and her partner Alexandre embody a fraternity by questioning the unknown space but also the impediments and enemies, including those that are created. No Chão is part of the desire to stage this trajectory, inevitably tragic, studded with hopes and searches, of power relations. The two dancers engage in this shaky, sick, sometimes happy or grotesque path through a singular gesture that draws its inspiration in urban dances that tell of alarm, escape, hunting or threat.

LEÏLA KA

He began his training with hip hop and thanks to George Cordeiro, known as Ghel Nikaido, he entered the world of contemporary dance. With this former interpreter of the Brazilian company Bruno Beltrao, he creates his own peculiar dance identity. Together, they create the Favela and 2 duets, The table (2014) and Du La fine degli occhi (2015), notably awarded by the Beaumarchais SACD exchange.

Credits:

In 2016, Talents Danse Adami, He joins the Maguy Marin company for

perform his famous show "May B".

His first solo, Pode Ser, was presented in March 2018, is broadcast in France and abroad and has received 4 international awards.

Alexandre Fandard

Self-taught, he comes from urban dances and becomes an interpreter in particular for Brett Bailey or for Radhouane El Meddeb. In 2016 he became a resident at the urban culture laboratory and public space of 104 in Paris. Look for multidisciplinarity and communication between the arts. Alexandre, artist choreographer, director and abstract painter, defines his dance as “mutation”, in constant evolution, Alexandre Fandard is defined as a “plastic artist of the living arts”. His first dance / theater solo, “Quelques-uns le demeurent", created in 2018 and supported in particular by the Drac Ile-de-France, has been awarded and represented in France and abroad. Alexandre Fandard is the winner of the FORTE 2018 scholarship in collaboration with 104-Paris where he is currently working on his new creation “Très loin, à l'horizon”.