Johana Malédon Compagnie MÂLE

(titre provisoire)

dance

Words, always words.We learn them, think them, speak them. They settle and accumulate. First on the surface. Then they seep through our pores, take root within us, shape us — sometimes without our knowing.

(titre provisoire) is a solo that resists being named. A flight from identity. A flight from definition. A flight from words.

On stage, a body and an LED screen — nicknamed the big label —coexist, respond to one another, and rub against each other.Words appear at random, slipping, lying, or striking true, like projected labels attempting to crystallize images and inviting us to revisit our own filters in a subliminal impulse.

Where does our need to name, to understand, to classify come from? This performance explores the in-between: between cultures, between languages, between perceptions. The body slips between images and expectations, evades assignments,unsettles representations. It becomes a site of metamorphosis, evaporation, and ambiguous resistance. A sensitive, shifting space where the ephemeral becomes a territory of invention.

The spectator’s gaze then becomes a shifting field of experience.Neither narrative nor confession: this solo is a surface. A fracture. A mirror.

Johana Malédon is a French Guianese choreographer and dancer based in the Île-de-France region. She trained at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, the Alvin Ailey School in New York, the Pôle Supérieur Paris Boulogne-Billancourt, and later with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel. She holds a DNSPD and a State Diploma in jazz dance teaching, as well as a degree in Performing Arts from Université Paris 8 and a Licence’s degree in Cultural and Artistic Project Management.

Her choreographic work explores the body as a material shaped by memory, contradictions, and states of transformation. It relies on performative frameworks that place dancers in situations of tension, displacement, and instability.

As a performer, she collaborates notably with Léo Lérus, Kristina Alleyne, Abou Lagraa and Nawal Aït Benalla within La Baraka, as well as with Fouad Boussouf, Yoshiko Waki, and Sylvain Groud. She also joins Tanz Münster in Germany as a guest dancer for the 2025–2026 season.

In 2019, she founded Compagnie MÂLE after receiving the Grand Prize at the Sobanova Dance Awards for her first piece, À Bientôt. She then created 40, followed by the solo (titre provisoire), selected for Aerowaves Twenty26. Her works are presented both in France and internationally.

Choreography and performance Johana Malédon ⎸ Assistant choreographer Natacha Gourvil ⎸ Music composition and technical director Rodrig De Sa ⎸ Lighting design Anne Terrasse ⎸ Costume design Gwladys Duthil ⎸ Sound and technical management Rodrig De Sa or Léo Huet ⎸ Lighting technicians Anne Terrasse, Sidonie Gallot or Malek Chorfi ⎸ External artistic advisors Christian Ben Aïm, Mehdi Dahkan ⎸ Literary advisor Zoé Jean-Toussaint ⎸ Production and coordination Claire Sanmarty ⎸ Administration Camille Aumont ⎸ Intern during creation Margot Ngosso Silo ⎸ Production Cie MÂLE ⎸ Co-production CCN du Havre en Normandie (Associated Artist programme), CDCN Touka Danses – French Guiana, Institut Français du Maroc (Agadir) ⎸With the support of DRAC Île-de-France, Centre National de la Danse (Pantin) – long-term residency artist, Réseau LABAYE, Beffroi de Montrouge – associated artist, FEAC – French Ministry of Culture, City of Montrouge, La Grande Scène – Les Petites Scènes Ouvertes 2025, AEROWAVES 2026, Institut Français – PIDA programme, Avignon Off Festival ⎸ ResidenciesKarukera Ballet – Récif programme, KLAP Maison pour la danse, Chorège CDCN (Falaise)