Thirty years ago, Olivier Meyer, director of the Théâtre Jean Vilar de Surenes, his eyes and ears always on the lookout for new things, went to New York.
He knows that out there in the streets, in the clubs, a new movement is being born, hip-hop.
He returns with ideas and dancers whom he invites into his theater and tries to create a festival and take this dance from the street to the stage.
So that it is not just a flash in the pan, he makes his theater a place of meetings, discoveries, diversity.
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Hip-hop meets classical dance and music, contemporary dance… And it works.
Hip hop feeds on social movements, fashion, the spirit of the times, music, it has its techniques, its vocabulary, its variety of styles.
Since classical dance, modern and then contemporary dance, we had never seen such a movement take hold with so much vitality and recognition.
Kader Attou, Mourad Merzouki made the beautiful evenings of the first years of the festival and are today at the head of Choreographic Centers.
30 years of hip hop in Suresnes
30 years of hip hop in Suresnes
Until February 13, theatre-suresnes.fr Bernard Babkine.
Dan Aucante
30 years of hip hop in Suresnes
Until February 13, theatre-suresnes.fr Bernard Babkine.
Dan Aucante
30 years of hip hop in Suresnes
Until February 13, theatre-suresnes.fr Bernard Babkine.
Dan Aucante
30 years of hip hop in Suresnes
Blanca Li is a Franco-Spanish dancer, choreographer and director.
Lalo Cortes
30 years of hip hop in Suresnes
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Electrified audience
So 30 years is something to celebrate.
For the opening of Suresnes Cités Danses, the choreographers Saïdo Lehlouh and Bouside Ait Atmane, and both members of the FAIR-E collective at the head of the National Choreographic Center of Rennes, created “Hip Hop Opening”.
Ten dancers and a DJ celebrate a birthday.
Crystal chandeliers, an elegant buffet, in a chic bar atmosphere in London or New York and the dance that seizes the bodies, in groups, in pairs, alone, battle style.
The audience is electrified.
The tone is set, the party continues.
We saw Johanna Faye (to discover in
Madame Figaro
), we are waiting for the poetic and hypnotic dance of Rafael Smadja, the creation of Mickaël Le Mer inspired by the work of Pierre Soulages, the shows of Kader Attou, Pierre Rigal, Ousmane Sy and many discoveries.
And a colorful and crackling final bouquet with Blanca Li who puts spice, joie de vivre and modernity in her very personal version of the classic
Nutcracker
.
And parties like this, we missed it terribly!
Until February 13, theatre-suresnes.fr.
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