Eight individuals blend into one, driven by a visceral transcending  energy. The storyline of Dyptik starts in 2012 with another piece, En  Quête. Together they form an artistic diptych that explores culturally  rooted topics such as immigration and collective identity.
As the continuation of the artistic reflection started with En Quête,  Dyptik is born out of the encounter between French and Malian dancers and questions the fragile balance between the desire for conformity and  the search for individual identity.

The choreographic path allows the individual and the group to confront  one another and go past their cultural differences through their body  language, giving way to bonding and exchange.
Dancers feed off one another’s movement with fluidity, flexibility and  elegance, as if merging together and coming out stronger.
 

For the present piece, Souhail Marchiche created a hybrid language, in  which the foundational Hip-Hop basics live side by side with a more traditional, almost ritualistic style of dance. The brutal, sometimes  tribalistic dynamic is akin to a trance which creates a tense and intense energy that flows out of the performers and to the audience. The musical composition accentuates the tense atmosphere. The spectators  find themselves carried away in a universe both singular and modern that captivates them until the last note…
The musical composition is an equal driving force in setting an  atmosphere which captivates the audience. Until the last note, they are  carried away in a universe both peculiar and modern in style.

Source: website of the company https://www.dyptik.com 

Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).

Nonchalant and uninterested in consensus, the Dyptik company dances its identity and revolt with force and authenticity.
 We are committed in our relationship to alterity, to other people and  the body. We explore what it means to be human. With special attention  to humankind’s history, we consider the intimate and the depth of  things.
 Through artistic creation and transmission, when we accompany and when  we host, or when we bring people together… We dig for the visceral, what  is most powerful in each and every one. Sometimes to exhaustion.

Dyptik was founded in 2012 by choreographers Mehdi Meghari and Souhail Marchiche. The  company is based in Saint-Etienne, France and has the support of the  city of Saint-Etienne, the DRAC, the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the  Loire department.

As early as 2012, Dyptik started exploring the theme of identity, through two choreographic pieces: En quête (2012) and Dyptik (2014).

The company then went on to tackle the topic of revolt with D-Construction (2016), Dans l’engrenage (2017) and Le Cri (2018).

Besides its creative work, the company has been developing many cultural initiatives, among which TRAX, an annual festival created in 2014.

The company is committed to the values of sharing, cultural exchange  and engaging with other people. The company opens its Saint-Etienne  studios to artists and the public so as to make them a true platform for residencies and performances.

The  Company is an associate artist with the Maison de la Danse in Lyon for  the 2017/2018 season as part of the European Creative Pole, and with the  Théâtre de Cusset for the period 2017-2020.

Source : Compagnie Dyptik

More information : www.dyptik.com