’Le plus beau voyage est celui qu’on n’a pas encore fait’ disait un célèbre navigateur.
C’est parce qu’il reste toujours un archipel de possibles à explorer, un  ailleurs inconnu où s’émerveiller, que je poursuis cette quête qui me  pousse à naviguer de territoires en territoires.
Ici, ce territoire est celui de la Vendée, point de départ d’expéditions  mythiques, et plus largement tourné vers un océan d’imaginaires autour  de l’apprivoisement de vents et marées.

Artistes ou explorateurs, nous sommes à la recherche d’espaces de  liberté avec pour tout bagage nos rêves et notre détermination. L’envie  de se lancer dans une aventure singulière et de partager une expérience  hors du commun avec le plus grand nombre. Artistes ou funambules des  mers, cette ambition nous rapproche.
Entouré de mes fidèles collaborateurs à la musique, la lumière, la  scénographie et les costumes, j’ai choisi comme cap pour cette nouvelle  création le défi humain face aux forces de la nature, ce qui constitue  l’essence même de la vie en mer : un corps à corps avec le vent.

Donner forme à ce qui par définition n’en a pas.
Sculpter à travers le vent où l’ineffable ne peut se conter.
Transformer l’impalpable en une matière concrète à travers la danse.
Faire de l’air une substance que l’on peut dompter.
Porter sur scène un élément naturel et lui donner vie.
Mouvement à l’état pur, le vent n’existe que dans le déplacement.
Une nouvelle approche du plateau pour des danseurs de haut niveau. »

Mourad Merzouki 

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A major figure on the hip-hop scene since the early 1990s, Merzouki works at the crossroads of many different disciplines: he adds circus, martial arts, fine arts, video and live music to his exploration of hip-hop dance. Without losing sight of the roots of hip-hop movement – of its social and geographical origins – this multidisciplinary approach opens new horizons and reveals original outlooks. Since 1996, 30 creations have been performed in 700 cities and 65 countries, with more than 3,000 performances given for 1.7 million people. Since 2009, Merzouki is director of the Centre chorégraphique national de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne, where he created the festival Kalypso, a Parisian twin of his festival Karavel in the region of Lyon. In 2016, he is also appointed artistic director of Pôle en Scènes in Bron.

More information : http://ccncreteil.com/

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc).
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.

Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

More information: fabione.fr

 In June 2009, Mourad Merzouki was appointed director of the CCN de   Créteil and Val-de-Marne (National Choreography Centre), where he has   developed his vision of dance as “an open window on the world”. Since   the creation of the Käfig Company in 1996, the choreographer has been able to expand the language of hip-hop by working at where multiple   disciplines intersect: circus, martial arts, contemporary dance and   more. His pieces are currently touring the world. Supported by the State and local authorities, the Centres chorégraphiques nationaux (CCN) promote the development of dance, both through the creative impulse of their directors-choreographers, but also by supporting choreographic artists of various styles, by presenting works and by raising public awareness of the art of dance.

Today there are 19 Centres chorégraphiques nationaux. The CCN de Créteil is one of the first to have been created, by Maguy Marin. Three of them are now run by hip-hop choreographers, in Créteil (Mourad Merzouki), La Rochelle (Kader Attou) and Rennes (FAIR-E collective).

Mourad Merzouki has been at the head of the Centre chorégraphique national de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne / Compagnie Käfig since 2009. He is developing an artistic project that is both open to the world and rooted in the territory, transcending aesthetic, cultural and social boundaries. Tours, workshops, residencies, the Kalypso festival : there are many opportunities to discover and celebrate hip-hop dance, an art form that has become, in over 30 years, a strong marker of the cultural identity of our heritage.