Mai Juli Machado (MZ) and Amala Dianor (FR/SN)
Mai-Júli Machado Nhapulo is a young dancer and choreographer from Mozambique. She devoted herself to traditional Mozambican and African tribal dances and took part in many workshops with leading contemporary dancers and choreographers such as Idio Chichava or Wim Vandekeybus. She also completed several internships abroad. She won three prizes at the Solo-Dance Theatre Festival Stuttgart in 2023 for her solo Sianis Particulares.
Amala Dianor graduated from the prestigious CNDC school in Angers. For ten years he worked as a dancer with numerous choreographers and in very diverse fields (hip hop, neoclassicism, contemporary dance, Afro) before founding his own dance group Cie Amala Dianor in France in 2012. Man Rec (2014) is his first solo and the beginning of a close collaboration with music composer Awir Léon. Dianor often collaborates with other choreographers, composers, writers and artists. His choreography will open the Summer Olympics in Paris this year.