OCNI [Newly Imagined Choreographic Objects]
An original idea by Bouba Landrille Tchouda, artistic director of the Malka company, OCNI is a spectacular choreographic proposition combining Music and Dance. Conceived for the outdoors, OCNI is a pretext for bringing together melodies and bodies in the public space of the city, spaces of life and exchange that offer scenographies and objects to be imagined, taken over and brought to life through dance. Bringing together amateur and professional dancers, the choreographer creates a new choreographic form based on exchange and correspondence, combining dance and music in atypical urban spaces. Les OCNI offers an artistic translation of the way in which women, men and children experience the transformations and evolutions of their living space, their neighbourhood, and more generally the environment that surrounds them.
BAC [Choreographic Action Brigade]
Using extracts from the company’s repertoire and new forms designed for the public space, a group of dancers specially recruited and prepared for this type of performance will take the dance to unusual places – school playgrounds, parks, stations, markets, media libraries, etc. With these small choreographic bursts, the BAC will come to meet you and show you the poetry and unique writing of choreographer Bouba Landrille Tchouda.
Parade at the Lyon Biennial Dance Festival
I am fortunate to be one of the choreographers from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region who have had a regular link with the Défilé de la Biennale de la Danse de Lyon since it was first staged in 1996. Whether with the towns of Grenoble in 1998, Saint-Priest, Villeurbanne, Annemasse/le Grand Genève or the Communities of Communes of Bièvre Valloire in 2021 at the Grand Théâtre de Fourvière, I have always worked to ensure that this popular event is a great opportunity for people to share and come together around dance.
Like the Rio Carnival, the strength of the Dance Biennial Parade lies in its ability to bring together different ‘worlds’, to promote encounters between professionals and amateurs, to reinforce interculturality, and to foster collective and individual fulfilment through a powerful and meaningful project. Crossing paths, finding each other or getting together again for a dance, together!
Vie Violences
‘Whether structural or situational, violence threatens us in the present of our lives, growing a little more every day. A violence that prevents us, a violence that excludes us, to the point of destroying the humanity that is in every being’ Bouba Landrille Tchouda
A three-year participatory artistic project that explores the issue of violence from multiple and unique angles. With the help of Belgian playwright Olivier Hespel and Grenoble-based video artist Mohamed Athamna, choreographer Bouba Landrille Tchouda is exploring the mechanisms that can gradually lead us to a form of marginality, excluding us and setting us apart from society.