Dalila Belaza, hiya compagnie, FIGURES, 2022

In Fi­gures, Da­li­la Be­la­za conti­nues to cross the lan­guages of folk and contem­po­ra­ry dance, prai­sing dance strip­ped of all forms of culture, ori­gin and ter­ri­to­ry. In this solo, she “searches for the in­ti­mate, mys­te­rious and un­chan­ging story that lies dor­mant wi­thin us. That which speaks of being in an es­sen­tial sense, and which can bring us to­ge­ther.”

Through dance, Da­li­la Be­la­za seeks uto­pian ter­ri­to­ry where the in­ti­mate and the uni­ver­sal meet like two in­fi­nite ho­ri­zons. She first made a name for her­self as a per­for­mer and ar­tis­tic part­ner to her sis­ter, cho­reo­gra­pher Na­ce­ra Be­la­za. Through their re­search into the body’s dee­pest me­mo­ries and a dance in­ha­bi­ted by a li­mit­less inner space, they built a si­gni­fi­cant path into the cho­reo­gra­phic net­work. Buil­ding on this foun­da­tion, over time, the need to give voice and form to per­so­nal is­sues be­came ap­pa­rent. It’s a tra­jec­to­ry that has led her to pur­sue dif­ferent lines of ques­tio­ning, ex­ten­ding this field of exis­tence to other rea­li­ties. For se­ve­ral years now, Da­li­la has been de­ve­lo­ping her own pro­jects, pro­bing themes of iden­ti­ty and ex­plo­ring the dia­logue bet­ween ri­tual dance and abs­trac­tion.

In late 2020, Da­li­la Be­la­za foun­ded hiya com­pa­gnie to en­sure the de­ve­lop­ment and conti­nui­ty of her per­so­nal pro­jects. Since then, she has crea­ted three new pieces, Au cœur, Fi­gures and Rive, which com­bine the lan­guages of folk and contem­po­ra­ry dance. These pieces de­pict an ad­ven­ture that is both ar­tis­tic and phi­lo­so­phi­cal. The bu­si­ness Fon­da­tion Her­mès, the DRAC Ile-de-France, and va­lued part­ners such as Théâtre de la Ville, BNM - Di­rec­tion (La) Horde, La Bri­que­te­rie-CNDC du Val de Marne have sup­por­ted Da­li­la’s work since Au Coeur.

Au Coeur was pre­sen­ted as part of the Fes­ti­val Pa­ral­lèle 2023 at KLAP Mai­son pour la danse. Rive is the re­sult of a first in­vi­ta­tion-stage with dan­cers from the Bal­let na­tio­nal de Mar­seille as part of Pa­ral­lèle 2021.