Last summer, during the Paris Olympics, Danis Civil, known as “Dany Dan”, a 36-year-old Guyanese, enriched the French record with a silver medal in a brand new Olympic discipline: breakdancing.
This style of dance developed in New York in the 1970s and 1980s is characterized by its jerky body movements, its acrobatic aspect and its figures on the ground. In 2020, this discipline, also called “break”, “breaking” or “b-boying”, joined the French Dance Federation. Its followers must have supple backs, strong arms and a breathtaking sense of balance and recovery.
Six dancers on stage
Then arrive the first competitions recognized by the federation and allowing access to the status of high-level athlete with a view to the integration of this discipline into the Olympic Games, especially as it requires perseverance and surpassing oneself.
In its recent show, “From the street to the Olympics”, the Lyon company Pockemon Crew (pockemoncrew.com) retraces the great moments of this cultural and artistic movement.
It will be presented on Saturday December 7 (8 p.m.), at the Salle des Cigales, with six dancers directed by Riyad Fghani.
Lights (Stéphane Avenas), pirouettes and music (Alice Orpheus) make it a very lively show which should arouse great enthusiasm in the young audience.
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