Title of the show: Provisional title

(Provisional title) is a 2025 creation choreographed and performed by Johana Malédon (born in French Guiana, trained at the Paris Conservatory, the Alvin Ailey School in New York, Pôle Paris-Boulogne, and the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel). She holds a DNSPD/DE in jazz, as well as a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Performing Arts and Cultural Management. She has performed for Léo Lérus, Kristina Alleyne, Abou Lagraa, Fouad Boussouf, and Sylvain Groud, and will be a guest artist with Tanz Münster (2025–2026). She founded Compagnie MÂLE in 2019 after receiving the Sobanova Awards with See You Soon, followed by the trio 40 for 40 Dancers in 2023. She is an associate artist at CCN Le Havre, Le Beffroi Montrouge, and Théâtre Louis Aragon, and has created commissioned works such as Chevalier Virtuose, Ha Chi Ko, and La Foule.

This solo explores the indefinite through a body and language in tension and resonance, intertwining without settling. A manipulable LED screen (suspended, dragged, or raised) displays words drawn at random from shared experiences, open to drift, addition, and diversion, creating a direct dialogue with movement, rhythm, and gaze. The voluntary desynchronization, where the performer discovers the words at the same time as the audience, generates intuition and active reading. Through a process of deconstruction and reconstruction, the piece addresses personal metamorphosis and the return of a Black, Guyanese identity long erased in Île-de-France, gliding between worlds, lands, sounds, and words.

Between performance and social inquiry, the work questions our need to label others and celebrates the freedom of what resists fixed interpretation.

Country : Guyana/ French