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Biography
Aloun Marchal is an improviser, dancer and choreographer. French artist living in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Aloun’s choreographic work has developped in two main directions.
One is the interdisciplinarity embodied by the performers. He often asks the performers to be responsible for the music, whether they create the soundscape live (Bibi Ha Bibi, SonoR, Anonym Messias) or mix it live (AVATARED), at the same time as being responsible for the physical work. Aloun is amazed by the diversity of forms human expression can take and he enjoys mixing them and experiment specific performance langages.
The second direction is inclusive performances where people that are the invisible of our society, the one that we often don’t know how to relate too, are given visibility when performing and an occasion to share their perceptions of our world. It can be children with physical variations (L’Age d’Or, Parc) or adults with physical variations (Trippel, Forme(s) de vie). Doing so, it often resolves a social knot as the performers invite the audience to look at them and the audience is then allowed to look at the performers. This journey as a choreographer and performer in the inclusive dance world started with the company SPINN and continues with the company Shonen where Aloun Marchal, the choreographer Eric Minh Cuong Castaing and the dramaturge Marine Relinger have retrospectively started a long term creative collaboration.
Aloun is supported by the swedish art council in 2025 through a structural support attributed to the production bureau Possibilitas.
Aloun decided to start dancing professionally when he understood that thinking wasn’t enough. At this moment, he felt he wasn’t able to experience anything without naming it. Something like a wanderer unable to take his eyes away from the map.
Since then he has been fascinated by the process of making sense as well as the process of not making sense.
As choreographer
• Anonym Messias, a multidisciplinary performance solo created for the actor David Sperling. Produced by Panjal studio. Premiered in 2024.
• AVATARED, a participative dance performance creating a context for an electronic music party. Premiered in 2023.
• _p/\rc__, an inclusive dance performance, a command from Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.Produced by the Shonen company.Created in collaboration with EMC Castaing (choreographer) and Marine Relinger (Dramaturge). Premiered in 2022.
• SonoR, a sound and dance performance for four women and wireless microphones. Premiered in 2021.
• Forme(s) de vie, an inclusive performance about losing mobility. Produced by the Shonen company. Created in collaboration with EMC Castaing (choreographer) and Marine Relinger (Dramaturge). Premiered in 2021.
• l’Age d’Or, an inclusive dance performance staging children with motoric variations. Produced by the Shonen company. Created in collaboration with EMC Castaing (choreographer) and Marine Relinger (Dramaturge). Premiered in 2019.
• Bibi Ha Bibi, a musical and choreographic performance created in collaboration with Henrique Furtado. Premiered in 2017. played around 25 times.
• Trippel. A three short integrated dance pieces program. Premiered in Boras in april 2015. A command from the company SPINN. Played around 20 times
• Gerro, Minos and Him. A trio created in collaboration with Simon Tanguy and Roger Sala Reyner. Premiered in 2011 during something Raw festival, Amsterdam. Has been performed around 55 times here and there in Europe. Has been part of the aerowaves selection 2012.
• Many site specific creations that took place among other places on beaches, fountains, music stages, museums, foyers and in the street.
As performer
• “The source”, a choreographic film from Gilda Stillbäck and Sofia Norlin. Choreography assistent : Aloun Marchal. 2022.
• “Forme de Vie” from Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, and co choreographed by Aloun Marchal. Premiered in 2021
• “Homo (sapiens)” from Karolin Kent, premiered digitally and live in 2021
• “Narhenten” from Tove Sahlin, produced by Riksteatern, jan – May 2020. Tour cancelled and postponed to autumn 2022
• “Xenophobia” from Cecilia Lagerström, premiere november 2018
• “L’age d’or”, from Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Co choreographed by Aloun Marchal, premiere june 2018
• “Habitat” from Doris Uhlich, premiere april 2017
• “These associations” from Tino Sehgal at the Palais de Tokyo, october-december 2016
• “Hit the Boom”. A dance show created for the opening ceremony of Impulstanz Festival, Vienna.
Choreographed by Doris Uhlich. July 2015.
• “Vem är starkest”. An integrated dance piece for kids choreographed by Gilda Stillback. Premiered in May 2014.
• “Imagine”, a dance and stand up performance created by Gilda Stillbäck for SPINN, the first
swedish integrated dance company.
• “More than naked”, a performance created by Doris Uhlich (2013)
• “Hi Hat Express”, an integrated dance piece choreographed by Veera Suvalo Grimberg for
SPINN, the first swedish integrated dance company.
• “Obscuro”, an integrated dance piece created by Favela Ortiz for SPINN, the first swedish
integrated dance company. (2011)
• “Wombats”, an outdoor improvisation based performance directed by Rosalind Crisp (2011)
• “Boarder Line”, a site specific performance happening in the biggest European skateboard park in
Malmö (Sweden), directed by Claudine Ulrich and Jens baldecraft, member of the collective “Sardine Sauvage”. (2010)
• “Overseas Close by”, a site specific dance-theater performance created by Simone and Monica Truong, Elaine Wing Ha Ho. Created and performed in Beijing (China, 2009)
• “Hotel Mind”, choreographed by Johanna Levy, premiered at “La ferme du Buisson”, Paris. (2008)
• “La danse des Eventails”, choreographed by Andy Degroat, premiered in Paris (2005)
As Dramaturge and repetitor
• Technical choreographic intervention for Eric Minh Cuong Castaing on the piece : “Phoenix”, premiered in june 2018.
• Dramaturge of the dance part of “Overseas close by”, Beijing China.
• Dramaturge and repetitor of a re-creation of “B’rör Mig”, a dance-theater piece choreographed by Gilda Stillbäck and toured in Sweden through dancenet Sweden 2008-2009
Prizes and special support
• Swedish arts grants commitee, Konstnarnsnamnden, Sweden, 2023
• Working Grant from the Västra Götaland region, Sweden, 2022
• The 2017 grant for innovative choreographic writting from SACD
• Best choreography award of the stuttgarter tanz- und theaterpreis festival 2013 for the dance trio “Gerro, Minos and Him”.
• Second prize of the festival “Danse Elargie” that took place in Théatre de la ville of Paris in june 2010
Studies
• SNDO (School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam)
• Prototype, a 50 days masterclass on the voice in the choreographic partition in Abbaye de Royaumont 2014-2015.
• Danceweb 2008, Danceweb 2012
• Master degree in Economics – ENS Cachan, Paris
Contact
tel : 0046 7 36 91 15 31
mail : maaloun@gmail.com
Kolonigatan 9, 41321, Gothenburg, Sweden
Design : Vincent Gebel — Font : Sporting Grotesque
Credits : Frederic Lebruman – Photo, Bibi Ha Bibi. Niklas and Lina Ikse – Trailer, Bibi Ha Bibi. Laurent Paillier – Photo, Gerro. Joakim Envik Karlsson – Photo and trailer, Trippel. Lars Dyrendom – Photo, Hanging heads. Lisa Larsdotter Petersson – Photo, Céramique. Karel Saelaert – Photo, Riptide. Andrea Salzmann and Theresa Rauter – Photo, More than naked. Niklas and Lina Ikse – Photo, Cirkus tuut. Nadim Elazzeh – Photo, Xenophobia – Photo, Anonym Messias. Anna Sefve