How can we move in the same direction while speaking two different languages? In this piece, two styles of dance meet in the same performance as an act of resilience, a collective exploration of our authenticity, our inspirations, and trust in others and our own abilities. Diversity that doesn’t reject but hybridizes. Hybridization – this is the key word that challenges Marion Alzieu and constitutes her main source of inspiration. Through a multidimensional body language – physical, energetic, refined, and unique – the choreographer seeks balance between tensions and contrasting elements: consistencies, colors, softness, and forces, dynamics in tension. She uses Krump as a tool for reflection on authenticity and community bond. She achieves an aesthetic clarity that feeds on the fusion of differences. Baggy blue jeans with floral patterns, tight black t-shirts, bodies of performers who are diametrically opposed yet in tune, a centrifugal but solid and compact duo, feeding endlessly on each other. Hold Fast is the representation of a functioning social engine.
HOLD FAST
COMPAGNIE MA’ (FR)
31 May 2025 17:30 Tema - Corpo politico
Largo Corso Palermo / Via Sesia BARRIERA DI MILANOMARION ALZIEU. She has worked as a performer with Jasmin Vardimon, Hervé Chaussard, Salia Sanou, Chiara Taviani, Serge-Aimé Coulibaly, and Amala Dianor. In 2014, she created her first piece, the solo Ceci n’est pas une femme blanche, and in the same year, she founded the company Ma’. Her solo has been presented in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, receiving several awards in European competitions. She later created several theatrical works and site-specific performances, including W, UNE, Alttaï, If it’s a girl, and Hold Fast. Her research focuses on gesture itself, always in direct dialogue with a new form for her (singing, photography, location, music, dance style…). Hybridization is at the heart of her approach. In addition to her creations, it is important for her to conduct workshops with various audiences and lead scenic training paths.
COMPAGNIE MA’. Founded by Marion Alzieu, the company Ma’ is based in Chambéry (France). There, it develops and explores the gesture of dance in constant dialogue with other art forms, cultures, styles, and environments. Hybridization is at the core of its research. Tying to current events and the richness of her experience, Marion loves challenging herself in new fields to question adaptation, the impermanence of her dance, and to meet new audiences through her creations for theater and site-specific performances.
By Marion Alzieu
With Marion Alzieu, Mickaël Florestan
Music Michael Avron
Manager: Rodolphe Martin
Dramaturgy Nathalie Veuillet
Suit design Abys2fly
Production Company Ma’
Co-production Auditorium de Seynod (FR), Théâtre de Cusset (FR) Support – CND Centre national de la danse (Lyon, FR) Boom’Structur Pôle chorégraphique (Clermont-Ferrand, FR) L’Assemblée fabrique artistique (Lyon, FR); 3C-L (LU); Théâtre d’Aurillac (FR); Département de la Savoie (FR); Ville de Chambéry (FR); Centre Artistique Départemental de la Savoie (Montmélian, FR); SPEDIDAM; DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (FR); Région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (FR)
With the support of Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea
Artist awarded UBU prize 2022 for Best Performer Under35
NATIONAL PREMIERE
durata 25'