Nassim Baddag et Lilian Damango sous la verrière du Grand Palais — Nassim Baddag et Lilian Damango

Nassim Baddag, Lilian Damango, Racha Arodaky
Dead Leaf

Name: Nassim Baddag, Lilian Damango, Racha Arodaky · Dead Leaf
Start: 2026-07-08
End: 2026-07-08
Location: 7 Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris

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Between breakdance and contemporary dance, imbalance and attempted control, an exploration of the fragility of the moment and the persistence of movement. Acrobatic figures, impacts and rebounds punctuate this quest for impossible balance.

What if we stopped being afraid of falling? What if falling became a playground, a sensory experience? Dead leaf explores this fragile and fascinating state where the body gives way, bounces, collapses and rises again.

Through a hybrid language, blending breakdance and contemporary dance, eight dancers engage in a ballet as chaotic as it is precise, an oscillation between tension and harmony. They fall, alone or together, never too far from each other. As if the fall were not just a descent, but a dialogue, a shared necessity. To fall in order to rise again. Like the image of a man diving off a building not to disappear, but to experience a second of absolute freedom.

Here, bodies don't crash, they reinvent movement. The dancers oscillate between resistance and letting go, between frustration and fluidity, creating a dance where understanding comes through sensation. Dead leaf is an immersion in the instinctive, an organic journey where the fall is no longer an end but a passage.

About Nassim Baddag, Lilian Damango and Racha Arodaky

Nassim Baddag

Nassim Baddag is a dancer, videographer and artistic director with a breakdance background. He discovered dance at the age of 9, watching street shows in Paris, and began practicing bboying. In 2021, he met Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and began a collaboration with the choreographer, from the Nomad tour to the opera Alceste at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Italy. In late 2023, Nassim met Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga, who invited him to join Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's company, Rosas, for the creation of Il Cimentodell'Armonia e dell'Inventione. Today, he continues to work internationally on his personal projects as a choreographer and video artist.

Lilian Damango

A native of Savigny-le-Temple, Lilian discovered breakdance at the age of 13 and quickly forged a solid experience in the competitive arena, evolving on regional, national and international stages. His career then led him to the performing arts, where he worked with Arnaud Deprez and Carmel Loanga's companies. At the same time, he puts his talent to work for major events, including the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games and the Victoires de la Musique 2025.

Racha Arodaky

Racha Arodaky is an international pianist who comes from the French school, winning a prize at the Conservatoire supérieur de musique de Paris in the class of Dominique Merlet, and from the Russian piano school, Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in the class of Yevgueni Malinine. Her meeting with Murray Perahia, of whom she was one of only a handful of pupils for several years, completed her ascent to the greatest piano traditions. After several discs devoted to works by Mendelssohn, Scriabin, Scarlatti, Handel and Bach, she was named Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, by decree of the Ministry of Culture and Communication on January 13, 2015. She is also producer and director of her own label, AIR NOTE.