Published on April 27, 2024 at 12:36 p.m. / Modified on April 27, 2024 at 2:20 p.m.
An immersion in the Olympic whirlwind, far from the controversies. This foggy March morning, four months before the Paris Games, there are 60 middle school students discovering hip-hop culture at the Auberge Stéphane Hessel in Lille. They were selected, in partnership with the Nord department, to benefit from the “And you in 2024?” which, in four years, has reached 20,000 French adolescents in disadvantaged neighborhoods. For the first time, comrades from Belgium, the Netherlands and England are joining the program.
“In one morning, we cannot transform them into champions, but we can give them the desire to get there,” philosopher Angélique Roucou, the co-founder of the project, pushing aside the restaurant tables to improvise a scene. “With such a hard floor, we have no room for error,” laughs Dominique, staring at the gray linoleum. The 50-year-old dancer, wearing a midnight blue tracksuit and frizzy blonde locks, puts on his knee pads. Here, we call him “Dom:k”, it’s his B-boy blaze, his artist name. He rushes forward, legs twirling and arms cutting through the air. Thumb chak, thump chak-chak.
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