Mickaël Le Mer

Born in 1977, Mickaël Le Mer discovered hip hop in the 90s, during the ‘2nd wave’. He first trained as part of the collective adventure of the S’Poart Company in 1996. It was in this collective context that Mickaël Le Mer made his first attempts as a choreographer, and, with “In Vivo” (2007), he launched and took on a demanding form of creation that draws on the personal experience of dancers. The result bears the hallmark of a sensitivity that is both poetic and urban, while at the same time developing a great mastery of the stage space and every component of the show (lighting, set design, music, etc.).

His work was most notably rewarded in 2009 with the second jury prize in the Re-Connaissance contemporary dance contest, which is a competition organised jointly by the Maison de la Danse in Lyon and the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique (CDC) in Grenoble. Following this success, Mickaël Le Mer, the company’s artistic director and choreographer, was invited by the Institut Français (previously Cultures France) to create a piece as part of the 2010 France-Russia cultural exchange year. This commission resulted in the creation of the Franco-Russian piece “Na Grani”, a piece of choreography for ten male and female Russian and French dancers from hip hop and contemporary dance backgrounds. “Na Grani” was played for the first time at the Lyon Biennale de la Danse in 2010.

In 2012, he created “Instable”, “Rock it daddy” in 2013, “Rouge” in 2014 and the trio “Traces” in 2015. Mickaël is also working on his next creation “Crossover” which will be released in autumn 2017.

Source: Châteauvallon-Scène Nationale show program

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