FESTIVAL LEZARTS URBAINS 2022

100% BELGISCHE FESTIVAL

HIP HOP, KRUMP, STREET DANCES, SLAM, RAP, WORKSHOPS, OPEN STAGE, CYPHERS, SEMINAR, DJ SETS, JAM & MORE... 

The opening day of the festival will feature creations and works in progress street dances by Sisterhood (Massinda Zinga), Selasi Dogbatse, Barhal Cie, Le Cube, Betty Mansion, Zach Swagga & Junior Akwety. Also on the program: the conference "What does culture mean? (MDF The Label), a Supreme Cypher, dance and slam workshops as well as slam performances by Marie Darah, Mugeni and Z&T.

slam WORKSHOP

10h30-13h30 > hosted by Marie Darah | subscribe (free) 

Slam thematic workshop for beginners or confirmed; What's your relationship to your body into space? What's its perception by society? What we really are in opposition to how we are perceived. Or when our political bodies dance in the intimate space of our cosmic existences. European Slam champion, Marie Darah is also an actor. Committed and passionate, Marie's words are as powerful as they are sensitive. . ©Caroline Lessire

danCE Workshop

10h30-13h30 > gehost door Giacomo Giordano du collectif Le Cube  | subscribe (free) 

Workshop for dancers of all levels. Dancer and choreographer, Giacomo Giordano will try to share some tools to develop and deepen characters of movement and interpretation through dance. Member of the collective Le Cube, Giacomo has been anchored in the world of Hip Hop for a few years. He refines his dance using various inspirations, such as martial arts and krump. He has also been able to diversify his experience in different fields, whether it be commercial, battles, competition or creation. ©Kevin Rinclin

SEMINAR

14h > « Whar does culture mean? » | MDF THE LABEL | Gratuit 

Often when we think of culture, we think of a painting in a museum or a play in the theatre. But where does this idea of culture come from? From school? What if we were to ask ourselves the question afresh: what, actually, is culture? This seminar will examine the way in which the West, but also Africa and its diasporas have approached artistic and cultural concepts, and how a fixed approach can impoverish or strip meaning from so-called ‘street’ cultures and black culture.

Productions, choreography showcases, slam and open stage

16h > Opening with an Open Stage/Session | open stage for amateur artists, confirmed, initiated ... animated by DJ Remy Mpuki and the slammers of the duo Z&T.

A PIECE OF ME ◇ SELASI DOGBATSE

Selasi Dogbatse, Elya Lufwa, Idriss Tolo, Michée André, Inès Dumbi & Mahdi Coulibaly | Work in progress

Selasi Dogbatse is a Brussels-based dancer and choreographer. She moved to Los Angeles for her career where she danced alongside artists such as Rihanna, Missy Elliot, Cardi B, Meek Mill, LL Cool J and others. A PIECE OF ME, brought to you by Elya Lufwa, Idriss Tolo, Michée André, Inès Dumbi and Mahdi Coulibaly, questions femininity and the reality of the dance industry. Selasi highlights different phases of her story. By sharing her struggles, she wants to encourage us to step out of our comfort zone and never give up.

ENTER THE BCU ◇ BARHAL CIE

Walid Boho, Tomas Ntamashimikiro, Oumar Diallo & Popping Danys | Work in progress 

CIE BARHAL, the big winners of the Hip Hop Games 2021, are a collective of four dancers and choreographers doing hip hop, house, locking and popping : Walid 'Star Platinum' Boho, Tomas Ntamashimikiro, Oumar Diallo and Popping Danys (Danys Vanderhaegen). From the minds of this foursome sprang ENTER THE BCU, a timeless performance. The antics of four classmates become increasingly derailed. The performance is a trip down memory lane, in which the dancers return to their childhood and excite the nostalgia of the adults while entertaining the young guard. ©Teratai

FACE 2 ◇ LE CUBE

Pierre Anganda, Isabelle Audoan, Giacomo Giordano & Laetitia Malamba

Born of a mutual admiration and desire to share, the Liege collective Le Cube is characterized both by the individuality of its members and by their mutual bond. Pierre Anganda, Isabelle Audoan, Giacomo Giordano and Laetitia Malamba develop their dance by learning from each other, and expressing their own identity through freestyle. They fuse krump, hip-hop, contemporary and Afro-Caribbean dances to tell four stories, four energies twisted into one. Through freestyle mixed with tight choreography, FACE 2 sucks you into their universe. Between reality and dream, they touch you with their intense soundtrack and moves. Identity, energy, intensity and anchoring are by far the words that best describe this creation.

OH SUMMER ◇ BETTY MANSION

Betty Mansion, Isabelle Audoan, Roxane Hardy & Jérôme Louis

After working for several artists and participating in a series of hip-hop and musical performances and international workshops, Betty Mansion decided to create her own company : Play Me A Dance. OH SUMMER, which she created with Isabelle Audoan, Roxane Hardy and Jérôme Louis, is a performance dedicated to pleasure, to the second degree and to the abandonment of aesthetic codes. Mixing different influences, this show is a breath of fresh air, with a sometimes funny, sometimes explosive energy.

MY HOUSE ◇ ZACH SWAGGA & JUNIOR AKWETY

Véronique Mukendi & Rose Mukendi | Work in progress 

Belgian hip-hop and house dancer and choreographer with Congolese roots, Zach Swagga, is the founder of the non-profit organization Belgium Unity and the Ça Danse sessions. Junior Akwety is a singer, songwriter and actor. His music has taken him all over the world, from Los Angeles to Cape Town. In MY HOUSE Zach and Junior share their experiences with house culture (dance, music, clubbing, ...). This passion project arose from their desire to convey what this culture has taught them and how it has even saved them. A passionate encounter, brought to you by Véronique Mukendi and Rose Mukendi. ©Victoriano Moreno

UNMUTED ◇ MASSINDA ZINGA ◇ SISTERHOOD

Betina Kashiama, Laura Mengato Handjole, Cristine Tshimanga Kapinga, Nadège Utshinga Kioso-Londa, Marie-Paule Mugeni Uwamahoro, Marrie Abwao & Ronel Djimadoumadji

© Malkia Mutiri

UNMUTED is a multidisciplinary creation that intertwines dance, poetry, image and sound, presented by the young artists of afro descent of the SISTERHOOD collective, accompanied by a musical composition by Joycie Ruba. The piece touches on themes such as the influence of representation, how heavily the colonial past weighs, and how black women are gagged and their bodies exploited. Led by Massinda Zinga, artivist and choreographer, the young women of the Sisterhood collective draw on the African heritage of dancehall and the wisdom of those who came before them to question the place of women of Afro descent in our society. UNMUTED aims to dismantle the stereotypical image of black women and fight against the clichéd perception of Africa and the Caribbean. 

© Malkia Mutiri

Massinda Zinga is a Brussels-based dancer and choreographer, with roots in Angola and Martinique. She is an artivist in the dance world and in the field of Afro-Caribbean culture. She works more specifically on Dancehall and Kuduro. Determined to address culture in a more conscious way, Massinda developed her artistic and entrepreneurial platform MDF The Label. She organizes numerous thought-provoking intercultural events, immersion trips and exchanges between young women of Afro descent in Jamaica and Angola. She also gives lectures, organizes workshops and dance internships, and in the meantime works on the creation and distribution of her own performances. With the Sisterhood collective, Massinda wants to combine personal development with African heritage and dancehall culture.

& SLAM PERFORMANCES VAN MARIE DARAH, MUGENI EN Z&T

The multidisciplinary and committed artist Marie Darah trained in Word Art at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels; they also practiced lyric singing for more than ten years.  Imbued with the scars of a non-conventional reality, Marie Darah fights against inequality, systemic violence against minorities and the gentrification that lives in the Belgian cultural milieu. Their themes make connections between their personal histories and the dysfunctions of a capitalist, post-colonial and patriarchal society. 

Mugeni is a member of the Sisterhood collective but also of L-Slam and Slameke and she is a poet. A lover of the word and inspired by Maya Angelou, she took writing classes as part of the Next Generation Please project, created by Bozar. After publishing some poems on artist Nganji Muturi's blog - The Art of Being Human - Mugeni had the opportunity to perform at gatherings such as Mama's Open Mic, That's What X Said and Les Fleurs Du Slam. Last November, she was a guest at a roundtable discussion of Poetik Bazar: Regard d'Autrices sur la Poésie. © Caroline Lessire

Z&T is a duo consisting of Zouz (Zoé Henne) and T.A (Théa Simon). Zouz is primarily an actress and has been performing theater since childhood. She started slam poetry in 2019 and stood out at the Paroles de Femmes event with her interpretation of La Justice s'en Balance. On May 13, she released her first book, a collection of slam poetry titled Sale Meuf. T.A. was also trained in dramatic writing and acting when she finally tried slam poetry. She has taught several workshops and gives one performance after another. She recently published her first book, Chagrin des Codes. They are both members of the collectives L-Slam and Slameke and met during a slam performance in the subway. It was love at first sight, both humanly and artistically and they haven't let go of each other since. Although they have many things in common, the two slammers have their own individuality. Their first success, Cher Harceleur, merci ! , testifies to their committed feminism and the power they claim both on stage and in life.  

screening

 « MILLE% LE KRUMP EN CRÉATION »

Diving into the heart of the creation of BLIND, Catherine Wielant's documentary accompanies Hendrickx Ntela and her team in their research and their process until the birth of the show. It bears witness to their work, their complicity, but above all their love for Krump. The preview will take place at 9:15 pm, in the presence of the dancers and musicians of BLIND and the film crew.

« SUPREME CYPHER »

21h-1h > Cypher | Oumar Diallo | Free

An all-styles Clubbing Concept with Oumar Diallo dedicated to the street and club dance community, Supreme Cypher’s mindset goes beyond the classic battle. The main aim is for artists to meet, spend time in each other’s company and enjoy the jam by dancing together. The cypher lasts for three rounds.

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