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 artist from Maubeuge 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 distant from the canons of thinness in motion. In XXL, he no longer dances but makes others dance to go further on the topic of fat-phobia, in order to take the distance himself and better shake us. In a society where image dominates over substance, Chalal plays with…