Dance again
.
This is the name of the new anti-containment “tube”.
Bohemian artists, dressed in cheches and berets, wielding the accordion as well as the violin, the trumpet or the saxophone, dance in a circle and sing:
"Every authoritarian measure / Every whiff of security / See our confidence fly / They are so insistent / To confine our consciousness. "
The committed piece pleads in favor of the reopening of cultural places and in particular found an echo within the movement to occupy theaters.
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Since the broadcast of this video in December 2020 on social networks, flashmobs - lightning mobilisations - have taken place across France. Gatherings during which participants sing and dance to the protest song. Without masks or barrier gestures. At the end of March, in Les Vans, in Ardèche, more than 2,000 people gathered around the artist and his musical partners. On April 8, Gare de l'Est in Paris, a jubilant crowd swayed to the protest song, in a skilfully orchestrated choreography.
This Saturday again, a hundred people gathered at Place Ducale in Charleville-Mézières, reports
L'Ardennais
or Lamballe in Brittany, according to
Le Télégramme
.
Also, in Nancy, Place Stanislas, a hundred people met,
"without any real demand, except that of sharing a musical and festive moment together"
writes
L'Est Républicain
.
Specifying that the
"gathering is called to recur every Saturday at noon".
The movement has gone far beyond our borders and has spread abroad, notably in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
Cover versions were performed in German and Spanish.
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At the origin of this hymn, the musician Kaddour Hadadi - known as HK - and his group Les Saltimbanks, from Lille.
Astonished at the success of his composition, the artist told the
Huffington Post
at the end of March that
he felt
“overwhelmed”
.
He denies, however, being responsible for the health failure.
"It's strong coffee,"
retorts the singer, for whom crowded subways and trains are an aberration in view of these stolen moments of joy.
“It's completely disproportionate compared to 2,000 people who, for thirty minutes, outdoors, are happy to meet.
And they come to point the finger at us for that? "
, he protests.
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The group further argued that no source of contamination had been detected since the start of the movement.
