Malika Djardi

Originally from Lyon, Malika Djardi trained in contemporary dance at UQAM in Montreal, then at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers from 2009 to 2011. She has performed with Mélanie Perrier, Joris Lacoste, Ola Maciejewska, Alexandre Roccoli and Pierre Droulers, with whom she continues to collaborate.
Developing her own work with the solo Sa prière, created in April 2014 at La Raffinerie in Brussels, she is pursuing research into performance as an object of documentation, in particular by interviewing her mother, who converted from Catholicism to Islam.
The duet Horion, an album of seven danced pieces, was created at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine Saint-Denis (FR) in May 2016. For the Charleroi Danse Biennial (BE) in 2017, she imagined the conference piece 3, tackling the genre of science fiction and the question of emotions in a disillusioned fertility ritual. Épisode, conceived as a short series format, extends this reflection. The first episode was presented at Les Brigittines in Brussels (BE) in June 2019 as part of Memories of the XXIInd Century.
She is in creative residency at the Centre National de la Danse (FR) in 2019-2020 for PIER 7, which takes as its starting point a dialogue with professional skateboarder JB Gillet. The piece premiered at Les Subsistances in Lyon on 14, 15 and 16 December 2021. His latest piece, Martyre, a tribute to his mother suffering from Alzheimer’s, premiered on 27 March 2024 as part of the Le Grand Bain festival with the Gymnase CDCN in Roubaix.