Company Leïla Ka

With Maldonne, her first full-length work created in 2023 and performed over 160 times worldwide, Leïla Ka explored the identities of femininity as diverse as the flowing dresses on stage. While that quintet celebrated the exhilarating power of sisterhood, it remained influenced by a movement vocabulary—upright posture, shoulders back—shaped by centuries of patriarchal dominance. Her new piece deliberately subverts this symbolic language. To “restore weight to the body,” she gives her eight performers, including herself, a liberating release against “restraint, feigned delicacy, the tilt of the head, and artificial elevation.” With curved backs, bent knees, sweat, and rhythm, the dancers unfold without constraint in a raw surge where anything can happen. Their tense mass embodies female empowerment, occupying a bare space with no set or props—a raw terrain where nothing is imposed or hidden. Creating ever-evolving play spaces, Laurent Fallot’s lighting sculpts the movements of a “wild troupe,” determined not to hold back but to let go. A blaze of pure energy, driven by the cadence of bass and the sharp strikes of electro sounds. 2026 Creation – Piece for 8 dancers Choreography: Leïla Ka Assistant Choreographer & Artistic Collaboration: Jane Fournier Dumet Lighting Design: Laurent Fallot Sound Spatialization: Rodrigue de Sa Performers: Jane Fournier Dumet, Mat Iéva, Leïla Ka, Maëlle Le Pallec, Jade Logmo, Pauline Richard, Elsy Robert, Sara Tan