Dance Among the Water Lilies (Danse dans les Nymphéas) • Amala Dianor, Wo-Man / Man-Rec

Seven years after his iconic solo Man Rec, Amala Dianor devised its feminine counterpart. Wo-Man was the result of his meeting with a young dancer, Nangaline Gomis, in 2018; she assumed these hybrid and fluid movements, prolonging and reinventing them. By combining hip-hop and contemporary dance, and drawing on their Senegalese roots, the two offerings form a set of mirrors around the subject of identity. “Me” is “Man” in Wolof, the main language spoken in Senegal, and “Man Rec” means “Me Alone”.

With these two solos, Amala Dianor delivers a magnificent dual work on the construction of the individual and his/her relationship with the other; and a generous testimony based on the idea of transmission. At the crossroads of multiple choreographic inspirations, their dance is absolutely free and provides examples of different ways to express an identity based on a dual European/ African culture. In her own way, Nangaline Gomis appropriates the themes of Amala Dianor’s solo in order to reinvent a narrative. And the evidence is there in each of the dancers’ complementary yet individual movements to the electro-soul music of Awir Leon.

Production
Kaplan I Amala Dianor Co. The Amala Dianor Company is under state contract – the DRAC (Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs) Pays-de-la-Loire, the Pays-de-la-Loire Region and the City of Angers. The Amala Co. receives regular support for its projects from the French Institute and the ONDA (French National Office for Artistic Dissemination). Since 2022 it has received the support of the BNP Paribas Foundation. Amala Dianor is an associate artist of Touka Danses, CDCN (National Choreographic Development Centre) GUYANA (2021-2024) and of the Theatre, Scène nationale de Mâcon (2023-2025), as well as a member of the Grand Ensemble des Quinconces & l’Espal, Scène nationale du Mans (2021-2024).

Joint production Wo-Man
Theatre de la Ville, Paris; Les Quinconces & l’Espal, Scène nationale le Mans; Maison de la Danse, Lyon; Touka Danses, CDCN GUYANA; Bonlieu, Annecy Scène Nationale. With support from the State – DRAC Pays de la Loire; the City of Angers.
Joint production Man Rec 
CNDC - Angers.

Wo-Man
Choreography: Amala Dianor
Performer: Nangaline Gomis
Music: Awir Léon
Lighting, stage management: Nicolas Tallec
Costume: Laurence Chalou

Man Rec
Choreography, performers: Amala Dianor
Music: Awir Léon
Lighting: Samson Milcent

Doors open at 6.30 pm