Presentation

Founded in 2012 by choreographers Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari, Compagnie Dyptik has set up its own creative space in Saint-Étienne, France.
From 2014, Dyptik Studios truly became a place of artistic residence, and Festival TRAX affirmed the will of both choreographers to contribute to the development of Dance.
Compagnie Dyptik produces and broadcasts its shows in France and the world; it is supported and approved by the City of Saint-Etienne, the Ministry of Culture and Communication (DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, and the Loire Department.

The Choreographers

Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari are Hip-Hop choreographers. Together, they run Dyptik, a name they chose for very symbolic, meaningful reasons.
Separately although already together, they discovered Hip-Hop dance and never gave it up. They danced and battled within collective groups until they found each other, tamed each other, and entered into a companionship.
Today, they have trust in their artistic twinning. They say they understand each other before words even arise, embracing a co-writing process where each of them takes his place depending on the project. They thus question the world from the same places. Naturally. That is how a duo works.
When you talk with one or the other, or both, some words will inevitably invade the conversation: exchange, sharing, collective, team, observation, questioning, others, elsewhere…
They both stand up for Hip-Hop in the plural form. They are in the street, they are on stages. They have created a festival to reveal young authors, and in order to keep mixing their dancing practice, they have traveled the world to meet Malagasy, Malian, and Palestinian dancers, with different conceptions of Hip-Hop…
The New Talent Choreography Award (Nouveau Talent Chorégraphie) was awarded in 2019 to Mehdi Meghari and Souhail Marchiche, a duet of curious, greedy, insatiable, revolted, effervescent authors who built a highly relevant work in an ever so impertinent way.