Interview – Choreographer represents the screening of his first group, his first group, MistakeA number of powerful pieces for freedom of air bodies and thoughts.
They have seen millions of choreographers around the world. 2024 On May 14, when “Modern Love”, “Modern Love”, David Bowie’s “Modern Love”, the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, is the steps that he executed. The same after a few months later, when the musician performed “under the sky of Paris” to close the Olympic Games in Tuili. Leïla KA and Zaho de Sagazan have been dancing for a long time, almost from the birth of the second. They are sisters, as well as imagining the latter’s meaningless gestures, which are a concert.
But Leïla KA is first of all one of the most prominent choreographers of the French scene. On 33 pm, one of the hip-hop, then a comment Can b, De Maguy Marin, created several soloists (:PEDE Ser, You worshipe Swell) The piece of his first group, MistakeHe was launched in 2023, which we can see during the last ministry at the last César ceremony is currently on tour and will pass in Paris (1). The ballet, which was executed with quartened dresses, which were dressed in Amamaüü, causing femininity, which, as gestures of his performers, seeks to free himself from his chains. Powerful.
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MEDIME FIGARO .- You have stated that your show, Mistake was designed to express what words can’t say. What are these ideas?
Leïla ka.- In MistakeI try to emphasize the fights that still remain today so that they are built as a woman. Knowing that depending on the social environment and the country we grow, these battles are also interior. I am filled with intimate contradiction myself. This is a question of what the public needs to force women, roles and tasks, but also against what can also force yourself. I try to express all this. As a woman, we build ourselves in wearing ourselves, but which does not belong to us, which is the order of the histories of past, families and society.
When you talk about intimate contradictions, which?
There are more that I love, but I don’t know that it is my taste or because I have been taught to love them very young age. As always learned to be soft and smiling, never get angry, or very little or not a lot.
And what do you mean by the weight of this past, what do women wear?I think about things that are not directly said, but these representations we have seen in pictures, movies, cartoons, fairy tales … Female figures who are always waiting for each moment. The idea is to question them.
Was this feminist reflection always been at the base of your work?I grew up with four sisters so I had been there for a long time there. Of course, my father was, but we, the girls, mostly. Then raising, leaving you from adolescence and family, we are discussing with friends. There have been all issues raised since the subway since the subway, which were also questioned. My daughters my daughters, we thought we didn’t even accept things that we didn’t even think that we thought normally but not.
Particularly in the dance industry.
I didn’t follow the academic curriculum, I started dancing 16. But all the dancers I work with were preparing the conservatory and went to a classic dance, which is still a hypertension for girls. If too small, too many chests, it’s too much, it’s too much but it’s too hard. It was very difficult for everyone. The diet was very soon.
Does not follow the academic course in your eyes wealth.
Yes, because not having the codes, I didn’t know what it was possible to do or not. It can release me. On the other hand, my technique is limited, definitely. The dancers I work with who started at the age of 3 and carried out an incredible academic journey, have a technique, and I will never have it.
Was it never despair or complicated?
No. I know that as a translator, I can’t dance with many companies. On the other hand, for my own shows I do what I want. So I will not demand things from me that is impossible for me.
You come from a family that has many artists. Your father is an artist, plastic artist and performer Olivier de Sagaz, your cousin, the director of Sagazian Lorran. Why did you choose the dance?
I don’t know I was very shy. Not to talk, it was good to me and the dance, that’s why it’s not bad for that. Then there were meetings. I made a hip-hop dance course and then continued. I have applied to the hearings to join Marin Marin’s army, telling myself that it would be almost impossible for my small background. Finally, he liked something from whom I even don’t even know that it’s still today and I had the opportunity to dance for him.
Your sister Zaho de Sagazan told us that we were encouraged in your family to express all the time A number but how do we do it when, like, we are shy.
We were encouraged to express themselves in all possible ways. With us, it screamed all the time, there was music thoroughly, we showed that it was a happy mess, we did not have too many borders. You can come to the living room and express themselves in the form you want. Therefore, there is no disappointment or any block.
He also told us that you and your sisters are on stage in small shows. Already manage it.
We are three older sisters, Zaho and his twins are smaller. Yes, we covered them, we painted them, we sang, we danced with them … he was already a little troop.
One of the moments of your collaboration with Zaho continues to comment Modern love By David Bowi at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival. How do we keep such a rock classic that is in such a solemn context?
I didn’t know it was classic, probably relieved me. With Zaho, we thought we had to build the staging around him and what could he do? He has a lot of translation power, and since he dances, he is very comfortable with his body. Then, I think we tried not to think about the fact that there were thousands of spectators in front of their television, and the people in the room were all very important in the world of cinema.
Besides Mistake You have made choreographers for a play Men’s skin with LAURE CALAMY Do you recognize a number of common thread in your performance?
I think what makes them connect, it’s a desire for freedom. And to get rid of anything that just hinders him.
This desire of freedom said he had an impact in your life.
I think I’m stronger. I don’t know if I’m wondering about it, or if that’s what I grow up and I’m making money. I believe it gave me freedom to build my identity. And in any case, I feel more right to stand in front of certain situations or not. I can talk when it’s not good, say no. To say that no is still difficult. When you are a woman, we are told not to respect the desire of others to pass it. But not saying, can be learned.
Your projects.
I’ll start creating a new show with a more important ballet body. I want to take the opposite view MistakeThere are five of us there, we stand well, we are among the row … I want to send everything to Waltz, to fold my feet. I want to drown everything.
(1) MistakeFrom April 10 to 12 to 104 in Paris and then in the tour.
Source: Le Figaro
