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.
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©2019. Lucie Albrecht.
©2019. Mario Simon Lafleur.