R1R2 Start – dont le titre est inspiré par l’une des multiples combinaisons possibles des touches analogiques d’une manette de console de jeu – propose un véritable voyage dans un univers où le langage, né de la rencontre entre le 0 et le 1, a fait émerger un phénomène culturel mondial. Dans R1R2 Start, monde réel et mondes virtuels de différentes époques se rencontrent sur scène et retracent 30 ans de culture populaire issue des mondes du jeu vidéo, où les personnages cultes de la culture geek sont détournés avec humour.

Bouside Ait Atmane’s encounter with dance almost appears as the  result of a misstep. From his first introductory hip hop sessions,  conducted by Emmanuel Oponga, Bouside seemed to be made for breakdance  and floor work, giving little hint that he would spend his life dancing  upright. And yet it is in the vertical position, under the banner of locking, a dance style closely tied to funk and spontaneity, that he came into his own as a performer, and later as a dancer and choreographer.

Inside the circle – the center-stage of the battle – “Zid”  gives a show of skill and force. In France and abroad, alone or with a  crew, building on the energy of confrontation, he has developed a  penchant for a direct language. This vocabulary gave birth in 2015 to Dans l’arène,  a show jointly choreographed with Yanka Pédron, the other face of the  YZ dance company. This piece for two dancers speaks to unmediated  inspiration drawn from confrontation: alternating between workouts and  moments of strife, it bridges the gap that traditionally separates  battle and stage choreography.

Created two years later, R1R2 Start was the first project  written entirely by Bouside Ait Atmane. Here, the choreographer plays  with digital coding and real actions in a courseware-like tribute to  video game culture. This piece marks a “recovery point” in Bouside’s  career, analogous to his interpretation of “Tetris” with the group  Géométrie Variable.

Keen on innovation, Bouside Ait Atmane imagined several battle concepts: The Ones invites crews from various dance styles to compete against each other; Fighting Dance Battle, co-produced with the association 3 Hit Combo, confronts 2 teams, each composed by a dancer and a fighting game player.

Bouside’s projects give form to a unique choreographic intention that  emphasizes musical gesture as a technical and aesthetic accomplishment,  drawing as much on the pugnacity of the protagonists on stage as on  creative chance.

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With a background in hiphop and all its influences, we represent a  new generation of choreographers. Our driving force—dance, as well as  art brut—draws on self-taught skills and takes on a universal dimension  that informs our values. It is dance that allows us to forge a  cross-disciplinary dialog with other aesthetics and to be in touch with  reality. We affirm the use of making (faire) as a way of  relating to the world, as well as a method of appropriating, through  action and reaction, our immediate environment and of infusing it,  whenever possible, with desire, poetry, justice, imagination, joy,  sharing, and community…

Gathered together, enriched by our differences and by our individual  artistic approaches, we have been able to sweep aside the residual  modalities of writing specific to our respective fields of aesthetics.  We thus invite you to discover our worlds and partake in the auteur  dance that fits perfectly within the panorama of contemporary dance.

Source: CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne