"My physique is the centrepiece of my career". On stage, an extraordinary body defies the codes of dance and the laws of physics. As dancer and choreographer Sofiane Chalal puts it bluntly : "People meet me twice, as if my body were taking up all the space, even my own. This almost schizophrenic duality between his life on stage and his life in the city is the subject of Ma part d’ombre, his first show as a choreographer and his first solo. It’s almost a rite of initiation, dealing with very personal and therefore universal subjects : the body as ally and enemy, and the paradox, sometimes stimulating, sometimes painful, between what we perceive of ourselves and what others see. Sofiane Chalal tackles these issues with great sensitivity, and a characteristic body language that combines the power of hip hop with the fragility of mime. As comfortable in battles as he is in theatres, a winner of numerous competitions and performer for Farid Berki, Brahim Bouchelaghem and Christophe Piret, and the author of videos posted on social networks that are as much short choreographic films, he challenges all preconceived ideas and doesn’t fit into any box. Here he lays himself bare in a proposal that combines dance, text and image, exploring in his own singular, intuitive way the position of the artist and the way the stage transforms him.