Envahisseurs (Cercles 01), March 18th 2019, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Hip hop dance event that places the body at the centre of its protocol: a body-place, a body-stage, a body-set, a body-accessory, a body-equipment, a body-atmosphere, a body-event.
The circle was the basis of the battles in the Bronx in the 1970s: at parties, dancers formed a circle and the onlookers could be participants as well.
Building on these qualities, Envahisseurs Battle deploys a protocol using only equipped bodies and props to invade a venue in complete autonomy. By taking advantage of today's technology, the necessary installation is reduced to the scale of the body. Consequently, anyone can have a role to play: playing music, setting the mood, showing the time, dancing...
If battles have now evolved in terms of their scale, this project proposes another type of evolution. It embodies a new transmission of this founding circle and allows its actors to be free and independent in the organisation, reviving, in a contemporary way, the spontaneous character of the origins.
It took place in Centre Pompidou museum in Paris, 50 dancers entered and more than 150 people were in the audience.
Crew
Design : Teddy Sanches
Equipment manufacturing : Sophie Fougeray, Alice Allenet, Marion Dubois, Louise Viollet, Chloé Pilon, Julia Brochier, Victor Olhmann, Pauline Emeriau, Céline Robert, Camille Bourhis & Léopoldine Blanc
App sound development & music : Orbe & Koo Des
App live development : Yoann Rasoanarivo
DJ : Mab’ish
Judges : Mounia Nassangar, Lumi, Jihene Grey & Jade Fehlmann
MC : Vicelow
Roles : Milo Desch, Thomas Signollet, Nino Bolzer, Ludmila Vatine, Kuidja Tchatat , Stephen Eko, Enguerran Chauve, Zineb Kertane, Lundja Medjoub, Amélie Orhant, Aida Favraud, Axelle Gallou, Nathan Strnad, Vanille Busin, Juliette Colson, Quentin Bitran & Amira Louadah
Models : Jenifer Abeyratne, Joshua Baalum, Perrine Ndongo & Alexandre Dias
Support : ENSCI, Opium, Agogo, Yard & wwweshstudio
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©2019. Lucie Albrecht.
©2019. Mario Simon Lafleur.