The Company
Compagnie MehDia is a multidisciplinary hip-hop dance company.
We draw our energy from choreographic creation and introducing the wider public to hip-hop dance. Our philosophy is to highlight each person’s artistic singularity and diversity.
The company’s works
- 2017MEHDIAA first, self-titled piece on the theme of encounter and human bonds.
- 2018CAFÉ-FLOORA piece dedicated to the Café de Flore and scenes of urban life.
- 2020THE FLOORA piece that takes ownership of the public space where we cross paths and meet.
- 2021MERÍDIOCelebrates femininity in hip-hop dance with five female dancers from different geographical backgrounds.
- 2024ART’GENTIKWith Art’GentiK, Mehdi Diouri sets out to portray photography and its history.
The work of choreographer Mehdi Diouri, strongly shaped by break-dance & funk styles influences, gives a central place to improvisation. A defining approach of hip-hop, it lets everyone commit freely to the performance and rediscover themselves a little more each time – a dimension rooted at the heart of the Company’s artistic world.
"Our stance is to see dance as something in perpetual reinvention, a discipline where limits are constantly pushed back, where inspiration comes from the present moment, from instinct, from sharing."
Each dancer expresses themselves through the very particular bonds formed along their journey in hip-hop culture: through contact with others, a true artistic melting pot takes shape.
Every collaboration, whether a freestyle or in-depth choreographic work, transforms, develops and nourishes both the artists and the movement.
Hip-hop emerged in the 1970s as a means of expression for New York’s working-class neighbourhoods; today it has become one of the most influential artistic movements, with a reach that crosses borders, genres and generations.
This runs throughout the artistic and cultural project of Compagnie MehDia, aware of the reach of the message it can carry, of its educational potential, and of the unique emotions that hip-hop dance allows artists and audiences to share.
Beyond choreographic creation, Compagnie MehDia’s project therefore naturally reflects a commitment to close social and cultural encounters with the public.
We offer the public an immersion in the choreographic laboratory that is creation, by opening our doors. The research periods involved in creating a show are special moments of human exchange, during which the artistic group grows, shares and creates through contact with others’ differences.
And by public, we mean “all audiences”: young and old, beginners, advanced, amateurs, the reluctant, the indifferent... This is why the Company offers a wide range of outreach and arts education projects in diverse formats adapted to everyone.
In this way, the show is an endless source of renewal, one that never runs out of breath.
