Coquilles
Amala Dianor, Milane Cathala-Di Fabrizio, Estanis Radureau
Schedule
Saturday, November 15, 2025
North American Premiere
Please note: no late seating. Please arrive on time to ensure entry.
Duration: 30 minutes
Created for audiences as young as one year old, this rousing piece for two dancers crafts a graceful, accessible story of contrasting physicality, shared language, and connection across difference. Choreographer Amala Dianor got his start in the hip-hop battle scene and brings that energy to this thrilling interplay of street-influenced movement and balletic form, incorporating props and costumes that riff playfully on the natural world.
“Amala Dianor finds the right tone to give the youngest audiences the possibility of curiosity about the world and openness to new experiences.” — Nathalie Yokel, La Terrasse
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Venue
Event Pricing
Member Price: $20
Non-Member Price: $25
Under 28 Price: $15
Part of Crossing The Line Festival Pass:
Members: $95
Non-Members: $120
Amala Dianor
After starting out as a hip-hop dancer, Amala Dianor spent 10 years performing with a number of choreographers in very different worlds, including hip hop, neo-classical, contemporary, and Afro-contemporary. In 2011, he won two prizes for his first choreography, and in 2012 he founded his own company. In 2023 he was awarded a Villa Albertine residency alongside photographer Grégoire Korganow.
Milane Cathala-Di Fabrizio
Milane Cathala-Di Fabrizio started out learning classical dance at her local conservatoire in Bordeaux. She then trained in contemporary dance under Alain Gonotey and performed for Charlie Le Mindu and Andrey Bartenev. She joined the national contemporary dance centre (CNDC) in Angers. During this time she danced in a film for Philippe Decouflé. After leaving the school, she reprised the piece Coup de Grâce by Michel Kelemenis and continued creating a solo, Joystick. She participated in the creation of D’un Rêve by Salia Sanou and reprised her role in The Falling Stardust for Amala Dianor.
Estanis Radureau
Estanis Radureau, born in 2002, discovered his passion for b-boying and hip hop culture at the age of 11 in Niort. Trained as a dancer and teacher from the age of 15 in a local company, he continued his training as a performer in Lyon while defending the main values: “peace, love, unity and havin’ fun.”
Billing Credits
Directed by Amala Dianor
Conception & Choreography: Amala Dianor
Performance: Milane Cathala-Di Fabrizio, Estanis Radureau
Artistic Assistant: Alexandre Galopin
Costumes: Camille Pénager
Lighting Design: Nicolas Tallec
With the voice of: Micheal NanaProduction Credits
Production: Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts‑de‑France as part of the choreographic commissioning project Les mouvements minuscules (Tiny Movements)
Co-production: Fonds LOOP – professional network dance and youth, Cndc – Angers, Le Théâtre – Scène nationale de Mâcon, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle Aquitaine Bordeaux-La Rochelle, Escales Danses – Réseau conventionné danse en territoire, CND Centre national de la danse, Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine Saint-Denis, L’ échangeur ‑ CDCN Hauts‑de‑France, Opéra de Limoges, Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse
Support: Génération Belle Saison’s Fund
Support for Crossing The Line
and The Wescustogo Foundation
L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Header Image: Coquilles © Frédéric Iovino
Amala Dianor headshot: © Jerome Bonnet
Milane Cathala-Difabrizio headshot: © Éléa D’Arcangela
Estanis Radureau headshot: © Jim Lasouille
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