Maloy’Arts 974 manages creative artistic projects to foster and highlight Reunionese culture as well as Indian Ocean and World cultures and heritage
Florence Latappy
Florence Latappy, choreographer
Embracing a spectrum of artistic forms to reveal a unique vision
Multiply the points of view, from dance to slam, from music to theater, to plastic arts, ignoring categories and hierarchies. Taking over the street, the galleries of a shopping mall, the local festival... being in touch with life!
The company works in close collaboration with musicians, such as David Abrousse, percussionist, and Didier Filo (dancer and musician) and gives an essential role to rhythm.
It is interested in traditions such as Moring (a combat dance from Reunion Island) but also in traditions of African and Asian origin.
His work mixes contemporary and different trends also fed by the Reunion of today (e.g., hip hop).
The company shape its work without reference to a single cultural model, taking interest in cultures that have shaped the life experience of the artists themselves.
Creating from research on Maloya and its crossbreeding to develops an art where the body is the path to blossoming.
"Art allows us to freely express our emotions and our imagination. In any other activity, all this plays tricks on us...
Norms forge societies but alienate us with the prejudices they create. These prejudices generate violence: intolerance, discrimination, and exclusion against whom the norm has placed very low in the social ladder.
For me, social hierarchies are abolished by art: it is this freedom that gives meaning to my approach. In the dance world, we tend to work in a certain respect of social norms by separating popular traditions from Art with a capital A: I refuse to do so and I claim it." F. Latappy
The company works on artistic creations that are often readapted and enriched over time and through encounters.
This is how the series “Femmes Créoles, derrière la carte postale” (Creole Women, behind the postcard) was born, initiated by a cooperation with a Caribbean artist in 2004, and revived in different versions and small forms over the years with different artists, in 2012, 2013 or 2016.
Another series of pieces and revivals around the theme of marronnage (marooning) are named “Krié”.
“Transe mêlée” explores a revisited India, unreal and beautiful, yet firmly rooted in daily life and sharing values. The piece exists in the form of a quartet, trio and duet and can be adapted to the performance space.
“Fifine” also adapts to several formats with and without musician. This solo is carried like a leitmotiv on the traces of the series “Femmes creoles” (Creole women): there is the Fifine from the past , traditional woman but secretly revolted, and also the more contemporary one, rebel but trapped by today’s world.
“Kordabor” is created in situ and has been adapted to the theater, exploring the banks of a river but also the shores of the life: men, shadows, nature, elements, space, time, united and yet tangled to bring us into an imaginary space-time without borders...
Florence's dance gives emphasis to physicality, and above all, rythm, especially maloya, but also to respecting body and mind. She is interested in techniques like yoga, kalaripayat and contemporary and afro contemporary dance. She focuses on a global aproach using scenography, feeling and choreography together as a unity. Through body, improvisation and focus on energy, she can give freedom to her feeling and express herself to the fullest.
David is a highly talented and versatile musician who has been immersed in the world of percussion since childhood, starting with traditional forms and playing with many local bands. He spent over ten years as a musician with the renowned group Christine Salem and also shared his expertise by teaching African percussion at the Conservatoire de la Réunion (where he himself was a student), scheduling classes around his touring commitments. David has broadened his percussion skills through extensive exploration, including studying Indian percussion both formally and informally, learning from various teachers, and through independent practice. He is an integral part of the Company's creative process, contributing to several productions and providing patient and sensitive coaching to the dancers.
Dolsy Baudry, Florence Hoareau, Raveendran Peringadan, Laurent Filo, Valérie Becq, Philippe Moulin, Guillaume Kondoki, Anthony Turpin, Jonathan Camillot, Magali Inès, Victor Guillien, Emilie Grondin, Jimmy Imare, Mickael Rivière (Compagnie Décalage), Kagiso Mabe, Katia Manjate, Leaf Arvie, Jimmy Cambona, Valérie Parmanum, Kagiso Mabe, Jean-Pierre Accapandié, Dany Sumera, Caroline Maillot, Séverine Nativel, Agnès Paradelli, Cristelle Belhote, Sabrina Fairfort, Frédéric Ilata, Guy Valiamé, Patrick Quinot, Corinne Thuy Huy, Harmelle Baret, Elise Latappy, Mariam Demba, Chloé Mirande, Timothy et Christopher Mirtil, Guillaume Kondoki, Saby Morales, Gérard Verdi, Bruno Gaba, la Cie ACTA, Ingrid Lowinski, Rachelle Rivière, Gilles Dumur, Sabrina Faifort, Philippe Moulin, Jimmy Cambona, Jean Pierre Accapandié, Valérie Parmanum, Leaf Arvie, Guillaume Châtelet, Lilly Jaquety, la Compagnie Acta, Jean Didier Hoareau, Dany Sumera, Céline Perret, Stéphane Gaze...
Name : Florence LATAPPY, choreographer
Phone - add (+262) : 0692123456
Mail : assmaloyarts974@gmail.re
