The ChamploO company (association On the Good Foot) was founded in 2019 in Biel. Branca Scheidegger and Rafael Smadja are the joint artistic directors. They met at the Break Through festival in Zurich in 2015. Their encounter on stage is atypical. The technique and aesthetics pursued by these two dancers are quite different and yet it is this heterogeneity that will create the encounter.
Staging the encounter requires a particular sound universe and to do this they call on a particular musician.
Dion Sumi uses only his mouth and vocal cords to create and suggest everyday and abstract sounds.
Between dance, acting and vocal music, the three protagonists bring practices and genres together. The practices follow each other, intermingle, agree, overlap, harmonise or contradict each other. This triangular communication is reinvented in the service of an imaginary and poetic atmosphere.
In parallel to its choreographic work, the company is involved in cultural mediation and the organisation of dance events for the city of Biel and on the Swiss territory (STYLIZE in Zurich / BOUNCE in Bern / PROJECT X in Biel / JAZZ adult dance in Biel).
