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Dance Performance - "Prélude," by Kader Attou
Prélude unleashes a vital breath at the heart of public space. A raw and fraternal hip-hop dance piece where struggle, momentum and breath come together. Nine dancers from Accrorap Company, under the direction of choreographer Kéader Attou, embody the energy of a humanity standing tall, balancing resilience and the joy of sharing, to the electro-acoustic music of Romain Dubois.
Dates and times
Saturday, October 10, 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Address
Quai de Marseille, Bassin de l'Eure
Accessibility
Children ages 7 and up. Outdoor performance, free admission, and ground-level access: accessible to people with limited mobility. No special accommodations for people with visual or hearing impairments.
Prélude is born from a breath: the first cry, the impulse of life itself. In this work, Kader Attou revisits his own journey—his childhood in the suburbs of Lyon, his discovery of boxing, the beauty of movement, and the empowering force of hip-hop as a space for self-expression and emancipation. He explores the intimate connection between dance, music and breathing, that shared pulse which binds people together.
Conceived for public spaces, Prélude Out reaches out to audiences who do not necessarily step through the doors of a theatre. Concentrated and energetic, this version offers a raw, collective form of dance that is accessible to all. Driven by the electro-acoustic music of Romain Dubois, the piece rises from silence into an increasing intensity, like a struggle that must be carried through to the end.
The nine dancers embody a humanity under tension: bodies in contact, breaths, impulses and acts of resistance. The choreography becomes a metaphor for struggle—physical, poetic and fraternal—celebrating the power of movement and the joy of immediate shared experience.
Accrorap Company, directed by Kader Attou—dancer, choreographer and one of the leading figures of hip-hop dance in France—has been based since 2022 at Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille.
Kader Attou
Kader Attou is a dancer, choreographer and Artistic Director of Accrorap Company, one of the leading representatives of hip-hop dance. In 1989, he founded Accrorap in Lyon. Since 1996, he has been the sole director of the company, developing a choreographic language rooted in exchange and the blending of artistic forms, including circus arts, contemporary dance, Indian dance and world music.
From 2008 to 2021, he served as Director of the Centre chorégraphique national de La Rochelle, becoming the first hip-hop choreographer to lead such an institution in France. He was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2013 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 2015. Since 2022, Accrorap Company has been based at Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille.
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