Dance: XXL

3 rue Guynemer

In 2023, the dancer and choreographer Sofiane Chalal performed on the Safran stage with Ma part d’ombre, a solo piece in which the Maubeuge-born artist revealed how dance had given meaning to his life. At the heart of the show: him, his origins, and above all his body with contours far from the canons of thinness in motion. In XXL, he no longer dances but makes others dance to go further on the subject of fatphobia, in order to take the distance needed and shake us up more. In a society where image dominates over substance, Chalal toys with…