Dyptik

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