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Dancer balancing on one hand, leg stretched upwards, between music stands on a lit circular dance floor.

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Art’GentiK

A poetic exploration blending hip-hop dance and photography, inspired by the work of Nicéphore Niépce.

Duration
60 min
Performers
4
Audience
All audiences
Premiere
2024

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  • 18 performances
  • 17 towns and cities
  • 4 seasons

With his new piece Art’GentiK, Mehdi Diouri explores another way of seeing the world.

The show celebrates two creative traditions rooted in Chalon-sur-Saône: photography and dance. By bringing these disciplines together, Mehdi Diouri builds a delicate, evocative world of moving images, gazes, shadows and light.

Art’GentiK, or shaping oneself around the image

Art’GentiK is a dance piece where hip-hop meets photography.
Through a movement language steeped in contemporary poetry, the dancers question self-representation, the gazes we cast and capture, the images we choose to offer or to avoid.

Moments of life, caught in motion or frozen in light, become fragments of an intimate, collective, visual language.
Art’GentiK is a reflection, a journey through time, a horizon line.

“The piece "Art’GentiK" celebrates two creative and artistic traditions that are inherent to Chalon-sur-Saône, my home town: photography and dance. By blending these two disciplines, I seek to recreate the artistic world I grew up in, bringing to it a contemporary perspective and energy.”

— Mehdi Diouri, choreographer

Videos

Gallery

A female and a male dancer one behind the other, arms crossed above their heads, hands open, on black with a spotlight.
Photo : Vibes – Aubin Rebillard
Dancer leaning over to move a music stand on a pale floor, a dancer upstage, a lightbox on either side.
Photo : Vibes – Aubin Rebillard
Three dancers lying on their backs, heads tipped back towards the audience, on a white floor before lighting stands.
Photo : Vibes – Aubin Rebillard
Four dancers in a cluster, bodies arched backwards and leaning on one another, on a lit white dance floor.
Photo : Vibes – Aubin Rebillard
Dancer in orange tipped over backwards, hands towards the floor, two dancers with arms raised behind him on a white floor.
Photo : Vibes – Aubin Rebillard
Four dancers lift a dancer holding a camera in front of her face, in a pool of light on a black stage.
Photo : Vibes – Aubin Rebillard
Three dancers in a low stance, hands like claws, on a pale blue-lit dance floor between two lightboxes.
Photo : Vibes – Aubin Rebillard
Black-and-white shot of a dancer leaning among lighting stands, with a blurred dancer in the background.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Black-and-white long exposure of a dancer in motion, leaving a blurred trail across the stage.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Dancer curled up on the floor, blurred by long exposure, a second dancer behind, among music stands, in black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Dancer in full swing, blurred by long exposure near music stands, a still figure at the back of a black stage.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Two dancers spinning fast, blurred silhouettes whirling between music stands on stage, in black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
A hand gripping a metal rod, the rest of the body dissolved into a blurred white trail on black, in black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Dancer with arms spread, body blurred as he spins, beneath a spiral light trail on a black stage, in black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Dancer lying with legs in the air, a dancer leaning towards him with hands outstretched, in raking light, black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Three dancers intertwined, on the floor and standing, the top one blurred as he spins, under overhead light, black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Dancer seated on the floor, knees drawn up, behind a taut, crumpled plastic sheet catching the light, in black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Dancer in a low lunge, upper body tipped back towards a halo of light behind a plastic sheet, backlit, in black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Dancer standing under a large raised plastic tarpaulin that hides his upper body, backlit, in black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Dancer wrapped in clear plastic film, arms folded and gaze proud, lit against a black background, in black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Bearded dancer in a dark T-shirt, arm raised and body tilted behind a wide-legged music stand, on a black background.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Three dancers on the floor around a blurred standing dancer, among music stands in a star, on a dark stage, in black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Dancer in silhouette, arms raised and hands open, in front of a glowing rectangular panel in the dark.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Bare-chested dancer arching backwards, arms outstretched holding a music stand, under a shaft of light, in black and white.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin
Dancer facing forward in rapid motion, head and arms multiplied by blur into light trails on a black background.
Photo : Clémentine Jeannin

Cast and crew

Artistic direction & choreography
Mehdi DIOURI
Performers
Nicolas CAPRARO, Eva LOIZOU, Benjamin PAGET, Cécilia NGUYEN VAN LONG (alternating with Margaux COLEMONTS)
Music
Patrice PRIVAT / Stéphane LAVALLÉE
Lighting design
Fabrice SARCY
Lighting technician
Fabrice SARCY or Benoît CHEROUVRIER
Sound technician
Robin CHARLET
Outside eye
Céline TRINGALI
Production and support
Production
Compagnie MehDia
Co-production support
Espace Culturel du Brionnais – Chauffailles / École Média Art du Grand Chalon
With the support of
Saône-et-Loire Department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region, Pôle de Développement Chorégraphique Mosson - Montpellier, Espace Culturel du Brionnais - Chauffailles, CRR du Grand Chalon, ARTDAM Longvic - Dijon, Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil, Maison de la culture - Nevers

Dates

Upcoming

  1. 8pm

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    Égletons (19)

    Centre Culturel et Sportif

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  2. 2pm and 8.30pm

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    Mantes-la-Ville (78)

    Espace culturel Jacques Brel · Biennale « Sur quel pied danser ? »

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Past dates

  1. 2.30pm and 8.30pm

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    Chilly-Mazarin (91)

    Cinéma François Truffaut - Salle Jules · Festival Kalypso

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  2. Show

    Autun (71)

    Théâtre d'Autun

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  3. Show

    Saint-Michel-sur-Orge (91)

    Centre Culturel Baschet

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  4. Show

    Montceau-les-Mines (71)

    Embarcadère

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  5. Show

    Nevers (58)

    LA MAISON de la culture, Scène Conventionnée

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  6. Show

    Beaune (21)

    Théâtre de Beaune

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  7. Show

    Nangis (77)

    Espace culturel La Bergerie

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  8. Show

    Sens (89)

    Théâtre municipal de Sens · Concours Les Synodales

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  9. Show

    Chalon-sur-Saône (71)

    Espace des Arts, Scène Nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône

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  10. Show

    Gueugnon (71)

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  11. Show

    Digoin (71)

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  12. Show

    Semur-en-Auxois (21)

    Théâtre Le Rempart

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  13. Show

    Chauffailles (71)

    Espace culturel du Brionnais

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  14. Showexcerpt

    Chalon-sur-Saône (71)

    Musée Nicéphore Niépce · Nuit des musées

  15. 5 – 10 Dec 2022

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    Chauffailles (71)

    Espace Culturel du Brionnais

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  16. 28 Nov – 2 Dec 2022

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    Quetigny (21)

    ARTDAM - Agence culturelle et technique

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  17. 14 – 16 Nov 2022

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    Créteil (94)

    Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne - Cie Käfig

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Press

  • Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire La saison culturelle se termine en apothéose avec la compagnie MehDia Read online
  • Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire Toulon-sur-Arroux : quand l’inventeur de la photographie inspire le hip-hop Read online
  • Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire La compagnie MehDia en plein travail de création Read online
  • Info Chalon Le chorégraphe Mehdi Diouri rend hommage à Chalon-sur-Saône avec son nouveau projet artistique ART’GENTIK Read online
  • La Renaissance Chauffailles : la compagnie MehDia en résidence à l’Espace culturel du Brionnais Read online
  • Le Pays Roannais Des collégiens initiés à la culture hip-hop Read online

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