Show
MeríDio
MeríDio celebrates women and their creativity in a show that highlights the cross-cultural richness of hip-hop.
- Duration
- 65 min
- Outdoor version
- 40 min
- Performers
- 5
- Audience
- All audiences
- Premiere
- 2021
- 54 performances
- 47 towns and cities
- 5 seasons
In Greek, MeríDio means to share.
A dance of dialogue and blending, reflecting migrations and crossings, MeríDio celebrates the many movements and influences of hip-hop dance. Five women from Cyprus, Italy, Greece, France and Bolivia inspired MeríDio. Each dances with her own culture, codes and language. All come from other dance styles, and all have chosen hip-hop as their means of artistic expression. Choreographer Mehdi Diouri set out to bring them together, blending their sensibilities and combining their energy.
A choreographic piece performed entirely by women hip-hop dancers
MeríDio is a feminist, internationalist hip-hop bombshell, a reminder that all culture is about sharing and that women are an integral part of the genre they have shaped and moulded. By sharing their differences, they invent a new way of dancing today’s world.
Craving hip-hop without borders? MeríDio is an ode to travel, encounter and sharing.
Often coming from other dance styles, the women of MeríDio have chosen hip-hop as their means of artistic expression, and they bend it, influence it and enrich it.
A dance of dialogue and blending, reflecting migrations and crossings, MeríDio explores with subtlety the encounter, in life as on stage.
“For this piece, I wanted to celebrate the female element that shapes the diversity of hip-hop dance in Europe and around the world.”
— Mehdi Diouri, choreographer
Artistic statement
Five women inspired MeríDio. Each is an ambassador of a style born from a fusion of hip-hop with her own codes and body language.
Five women with rich and varied artistic backgrounds, from many geographical and cultural horizons – Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Bolivia and France.
Five women with different personalities whom I wanted to bring together.
Like the score, with its traditional accents over hip-hop beats, each represents a sound, a melody, an instrument, a region. Together, these ingredients create the show’s harmony. Combining choreography and floor work, the dancers’ contrasting performance is heightened by lighting that plays on the interplay of shadow and light.
The common thread running through his work, the theme of encounter, is taken up again by Mehdi Diouri.
“MeríDio”, a Greek notion that translates as sharing, is a piece that reminds us that women are an integral part of the hip-hop genre, which they have shaped and moulded! And that hip-hop remains a way of life born of sharing & encounter.
— Mehdi Diouri, choreographer
MeríDio also takes to public space!
An outdoor version adapted for public space (40 min) is available.
Videos
Gallery
Cast and crew
- Artistic director and choreographer
- Mehdi DIOURI
- Artistic assistant
- Anne LE MOTTAIS
- Music
- Patrice PRIVAT • Stéphane LAVALLÉE
- Costumes
- Anaïs CAULAT
- Lighting design
- Fabrice SARCY
- Technician
- Fabrice SARCY or Benoît CHEROUVRIER
- Sound
- Robin CHARLET
- Outside eyes
- Sylvie ROBALDO • Céline TRINGALI
Production and support
- Production
- Compagnie MehDia
- Supported by
- DRAC Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (Ministry of Culture regional office), Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region, Saône-et-Loire Department - Le Grand Chalon - L’Espace Des Arts Scène Nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône - Pôle-Pik Compagnie Käfig in Bron - Le Centre de développement chorégraphique à Mosson, Cie Didier THÉRON, Montpellier - TPE, Théâtre Paul ELUARD de Bezons
- Mentors, Réseau Affluences Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Marc TOUPENCE, Director of the Théâtre du Pilier in Belfort-Giromagny; Mathilde BARRAUD-TOURAINE, Director of the Pôle Action Culturelle de Quetigny
- Photo credits
- moovance.dance - morgan_eloy; Jonas Zeidler; Dave Barros
Dates
Past dates
Showoutdoor version
Londres (GB)
Bell Square London
Showindoor version
Luxeuil-les-Bains (70)
Festival Les Pluralies
Showoutdoor version
Olivet (45)
Festival La Bamboche
26 – 29 Jun 2025
Showoutdoor version
Lärz (DE)
Fusion Festival 2025
Showoutdoor version
Malakoff (92)
Malakoff en fête !
24 – 25 May 2025
Showoutdoor version
Meisenthal (57)
La Halle Verrière · Festival Demandez-nous la lune
Showindoor version
Colmar (68)
Salle Europe
Showindoor version
Arcueil (94)
Espace Jean Vilar
Showindoor version
Mantes-la-Ville (78)
L’espace culturel Jacques Brel
Showindoor version
Longvic (21)
Espace Jean Bouhey
Showindoor version
Seyssins / Seyssinet-Pariset (38)
L'Ilyade, Les Vagabondes et le Hip-hop Never stop festival
Showindoor version
Pontcharra (38)
Le Coléo
Showindoor version
Saint-Michel-sur-Orge (91)
Centre culturel Baschet
Showindoor version
Saint-Michel-sur-Orge (91)
Centre culturel Baschet
Showoutdoor version
Melun (77)
Festival Les Affolantes
5 – 9 Sept 2024
Showoutdoor version
Lärz (DE)
At.Tension Festival
Show
Budapest (HU)
SZIGET Festival
Show
Budapest (HU)
SZIGET Festival
Show
Paris (75)
Jeux Olympiques 2024
Show
Bar-le-Duc (55)
Festival RenaissanceS
Show
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (94)
Parc Pinel · Festival Les Arts'Dentes
Show
Paris (75)
Le Printemps des rues
Show
Brétignolles-sur-Mer (85)
Show
Noirmoutier-en-Île (85)
Show
La Tranche-sur-Mer (85)
Show
Égletons (19)
Espace Ventadour
Show
Mitry-Mory (77)
Théâtre l'Atalante
Show
Épinal (88)
Théâtre de la Rotonde
Show
Montceau-les-Mines (71)
L'Embarcadère
Show
Valbonne (06)
Pré des Arts
19 – 23 Jul 2023
Show
Chalon-sur-Saône (71)
Festival Chalon dans la Rue
Show
Varennes-Saint-Sauveur (71)
Tournée départementale Arts & Patrimoine
Show
Ciry-le-Noble (71)
Tournée départementale Arts & Patrimoine
Show
Corbigny (58)
Abbaye de Corbigny
Show
Autun (71)
Théâtre municipal d'Autun
Show
Fleury-les-Aubrais (45)
La Passerelle
Show
Coignières (78)
Espace Alphonse Daudet
Show
Épinay-sous-Sénart (91)
Maison des Arts et de la Culture
Show
Langres (52)
Centre Culturel
Show
Créteil (94)
Festival Kalypso (zoom professionnel)
Show
Les Clayes-sous-Bois (78)
Espace Philippe Noiret
Show
Mâcon (71)
Le Théâtre, Scène nationale
Show
Torcy (71)
Le C2-Torcy
17 – 18 Mar 2022
Show
Montauban (82)
Espace des Augustins
Show
Digoin (71)
Show
Couches (71)
Salle Jean Genet · Journée internationale du Droit des Femmes
20 – 21 Jan 2022
Show
Les Clayes-sous-Bois (78)
Espace Philippe Noiret
Show
Chauffailles (71)
Espace Culturel du Brionnais
2 – 3 Dec 2021
Show
Giromagny (90)
Espace la Savoureuse · Théâtre du Pilier
Show
Quetigny (21)
Espace Mendès-France · Festival "Les Nuits d'Orient"
Show
Digoin (71)
Espace culturel de Digoin
Show
Dijon (21)
Salle Mendès France
25 – 26 Feb 2021
Show
Belfort (90)
Théâtre du Pilier
Show
Les Clayes-sous-Bois (78)
Espace culturel Philippe Noiret
26 – 30 Oct 2020
Creation residency
Les Clayes-sous-Bois (78)
Espace culturel Philippe Noiret
21 – 25 Sept 2020
Creation residency
Bezons (95)
Théâtre Paul Éluard
22 – 26 Jun 2020
Creation residency
Bron (69)
Centre chorégraphique Pôle Pik
6 – 10 Apr 2020
Creation residency
Les Clayes-sous-Bois (78)
Espace culturel Philippe Noiret
2.30pm
Public showing
Chalon-sur-Saône (71)
Espace des Arts, Scène nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône
2 – 7 Mar 2020
Creation residency
Chalon-sur-Saône (71)
Espace des Arts, Scène nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône
Public showing
Paris (75)
Les Plateaux Sauvages
17 – 21 Feb 2020
Creation residency
Paris (75)
Les Plateaux Sauvages
Public showing
Nevers (58)
Théâtre de Nevers · Réseau Affluences Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
11, 18 and 25 January 2020
Creation residency
Paris (75)
Halle Pajol · Paris DANCIMAGE's
Press
- La Montagne Un spectacle de hip-hop à partager Read online
- Vosges Matin Le hip-hop touche le public de Scènes Vosges Download (PDF)
- Nice-Matin MeríDio : un grand écart d’ombre et de lumière
- Paperblog Le public entre dans le rythme Download (PDF)
- Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire Du hip-hop qui met les femmes à l’honneur Download (PDF)
- Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire Festival Chalon dans la rue 2023 - MeríDio, parmi les temps forts Download (PDF)
- Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire MeríDio, une autre approche du hip-hop qui a séduit le théâtre Download (PDF)
- Le Creusot Infos Un spectacle de hip hop où le partage est le maître-mot Download (PDF)
- Tarn-et-Garonne Arts & Culture Salle comble pour le spectacle MeríDio Read online
- Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire Une ovation pour le spectacle MeríDio Read online
- Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire Digoin : du hip-hop féminin et métissé au programme de la saison culturelle Read online
- Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire MeríDio, quand le hip-hop rend hommage au métissage Download (PDF)
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