Performance chorégraphique éphémère, Apaches est un spin off de la création Wild Cat de Saïdo Lehlouh. Hors ou au plateau, en solo et en groupe, Apaches convoque en un même lieu et instant des danseurs, longtemps considérés comme à la marge.
Ce que l’improvisation permet d’authenticité, le chorégraphe s’en saisit pour proposer, dans chaque ville, un véritable espace d’expression désormais ouvert aux amateur.e.s de danse, néophytes comme professionnel.le.s. Les danseur.euse.s sont invité.e.s à composer une tribu hétéroclite pour vivre et révéler toute la beauté d’une danse instinctive et spontanée.

In the mid-90s, the style produced by the Parisian b-boying scene stunned the world with a new vision of breakdance. Wild Cat,  Saïdo Lehlouh’s first choreographic attempt, created in 2018,  foregrounds this style distinguished by its fluidity and its truly  feline refinement. The dancer and choreographer’s stint as a breaker  with the Bad Trip Crew informs the sincerity of his gesture which tends  toward introspection and submission to gravity while lending explosive  force to his performance within the circle.

Having cut his teeth on street dance, the choreographer offers an  alternative sequel to his début show with his 2019 composition, Apaches.  Saïdo Lehlouh makes use of the authenticity afforded by improvisation  in a versatile stage piece that perpetually adapts to the context of  each performance. Whether in a public space or on stage, Apaches  arranges bodies and sets them to rhythm in a transitional space where  the circulating energies and sincere intentionality are the message.

By taming the floor through touch, “Darwin” continuously builds a  corporal vocabulary responsive to the needs of the moment. With his  partner Johanna Faye, the other member of the Black Sheep dance company,  Saïdo Lehlouh explores in Iskio (2015), and later in Fact (2017), the possibilities of speaking out in a choreographic dialog. Together, Saïdo Lehlouh and Johanna Faye created Earthbound (2021),  a celebration through dance of the rebel and underground hip hop  scene’s diversity which questions the stage’s performative codes.

Saïdo Lehlouh is associate artist fo Théâtre de la Ville-Paris and Cratère, scène nationale of Alès.

Source:  CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne

Danseur issu de la scène hip-hop new style, Raphaël Stora, est créateur vidéo. Parmi ses films, il écrit et réalise "Les promesses du sol" (2017), websérie produite par Arte qui rembobine avec nostalgie les premiers battles de break et les rencontres qui ont bouleversé le parcours du réalisateur. Une ôde à la génération street dance, qui retranscrit la puissance des gestes imprimés sur le bitume parisien.

Témoin de l’évolution d’un mouvement, complice de ses acteurs, Raphaël Stora participe activement à la production de films et de documentaires de la scène artistique émergente. Il collabore notamment avec Saïdo Lehlouh, Bonnie Banane, Ndoho Ange et Pac Pac.

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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