PhotoDanse

PhotoDanse is an artistic and educational project inspired by the work Art’GentiK. It explores the links between dance, image and the memory of movement, inviting participants to bring together the eye of the photographer and that of the dancer.

PhotoDanse is a delicate encounter between two universal languages: hip hop dance and photography.

Through this project, Compagnie MehDia invites participants to explore the trace of movement, the memory of the body and the poetry of the image.

Four dancers in a line in a pool of light, smiling towards the audience, on a stage plunged into darkness. — 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

A dialogue between gesture and image

Designed as a space for experimentation, PhotoDanse lets everyone live an experience where the body becomes a living trace and the image, a memory of the gesture.

The workshops combine improvisation, choreographic composition and an introduction to photography, in a playful, collective approach.

The project is aimed at a wide range of audiences: school groups, amateurs, social organisations, associations and people with little access to culture.

Dancer in a headstand in a studio, a photographer lying on the floor framing him, an old camera in the foreground. — Photo : Gilbert Perrot

Rooted in art and in the local area

Based in Chalon-sur-Saône, the birthplace of photography, invented there by Nicéphore Niépce, PhotoDanse brings the history of the image into dialogue with contemporary dance.

Led by Mehdi Diouri (choreographer) and artists from the local area, the project celebrates creativity, cooperation and personal expression through movement and the photographer’s eye.