{"id":4610,"date":"2024-06-13T12:55:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accrorap.com\/?page_id=4610"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:25:10","slug":"kader-attou","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.accrorap.com\/en\/kader-attou\/","title":{"rendered":"Kader Attou"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00ab When I realised that dance didn\u2019t have any frontiers, creating dreams became the project of my life. \u00bb<\/i><\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”6″ accent_color=”#cc171a”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1654855334444{padding-right: 40px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]Dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of the Accrorap Company, Kader Attou is one of the most outstanding representatives of hip-hop dance. With a humanist artistic approach and open to the world, merging influences and breaking down the barriers between genres, Kader Attou has contributed to the transformation of hip-hop into a new platform of dance, bringing to the forefront dance created by artists, and recognized as a genuine French specificity.<\/p>\n

THE FEVER OF THE 1990s
\n<\/strong>In 1989, during the feverish discovery of breakdance, Kade Attou created the Accrorap Company with his circus friends Eric Mezino, Chaouki Sa\u00efd, Lionel Fr\u00e9doc and Mourad Merzouki to move out of the world of street performance and to bring meaning to their choreography. Acrobatics, breakdance and ballet, bring much acclaim to Athina<\/em> presented at the Biennale de la danse de Lyon in 1994, which announces a choreographic revolution and consecrates the birth of hip-hop dance as being capable of investing the stage of a theatre.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1654855345373{padding-right: 40px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]JOURNEYS AND MEETINGS: THE HEART OF AN ARTISTIC APPROACH<\/strong>
\nSince 1996, Kader Attou has been the sole director of the Accrorap Company as it follows this collective adventure with numerous creations and tours in France and abroad. He inscribes his dance in the sharing of and dialogue between cultures at the crossing of all aesthetics.
\nHis writing is inspired by different disciplines such as the circus, contemporary and Indian dance, the visual arts, traditional Arab music, classic hip-hop and electroacoustic music. He searches within the journeys and encounters made, for material to nourish his work. Thus, Anokha<\/em> (2000) combines hip-hop and Indian classical dance, whereas with Les corps \u00e9trangers<\/em> (2006) he builds bridges between France, India, Brazil, Algeria, and The Ivory Coast. Being a child of immigration, the questions of identity, difference, and otherness, lay the roots to his approach, transforming his dance into a place of convergence where a community of bodies and emotions constructs itself.<\/p>\n

CREATE SENSITIVE UNIVERSES TO REVEAL THE POETRY OF HIP-HOP<\/strong>
\nFrom the very beginning, he considers hip-hop dance as a discipline of art and research and, which forms its singularity, as a means to bear witness to the condition of mankind and reflect on social issues.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1654855354294{padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]Taking the liberty to invent a rich dance that does not restrict itself in any way, he never ceases to renew hip-hop with creativity without denying its founding values. With Symfonia Piesni Za\u0142osnych<\/em> by the Polish composer Henryk Gorecki, he will be the only hip-hop choreographer to create from a complete and classic musical work, exploring the link between the energies, the intentions of his plural dance form and those of the music and instruments.\u00a0 In 2021, he creates Les Autres<\/em>, a piece for six dancers of hip-hop and contemporary aesthetic origins, and two musicians whose instruments are as rare as they are unusual, a Cristal Baschet and a Theremin. With this creation, Kader Attou re-engages a dialogue between music, dance, and scenography in a universe that gives pride of place to the strange and poetic.<\/p>\n

ACTS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT<\/strong>
\nIn 2008, Kader Attou is named director of the CCN de La Rochelle et du Poitou-Charentes, thus becoming the first hip-hop choreographer at the head of such an institution. He develops a large-scale cultural project for the territory with a strong international dimension. He accompanies the emergence of numerous companies and, in 2016, creates the Shake Festival which supports the diversity of hip-hop dance. In 2013, he is promoted to the rank of Chevalier de l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2015, he is appointed Chevalier dans l\u2019Ordre National de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur.<\/p>\n

Since 2022, he is based at the Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille and established in the Southern Region.
\nThe creation of Pr\u00e9lude, a work for the territory, is an invitation by the choreographer Kader Attou to ten or so professional hip-hop dancers of the Region to explore his artistic universe. This \u201call terrain\u201d work \u2013 presented for the first time during the Marseille festival \u2013 has the vocation of reaching all publics and bringing hip-hop dance to where it is least expected, the depths of choreographic creation to weave links between the leading partners of the territory and the artists.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Kader Attou calls upon a quartet of dancers, men and women, the superb illustrations created by Jessie D\u00e9sol\u00e9e, and breathes life into a poetic world of creatures, full of imaginary monsters, fantastic plants and animals. Le Murmure des Songes, a work for all audiences from the age of 5, plunges us into the world of our childhood.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”6″ accent_color=”#cc171a”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1718275874056{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}”]CREATIONS<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]2023 \u2013 <\/strong>Le Murmure des Songes<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>2022 \u2013 <\/strong>Pr\u00e9lude<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>2021<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Les Autres<\/em>
\n2018<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Triple Bill<\/em>
\n2017<\/strong> \u2013 Danser Casa<\/em>
\n2017<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Allegria<\/em>
\n2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Un break \u00e0 Mozart 1.1<\/em>
\n2014<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Opus 14<\/em>
\n2013<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0The Roots<\/em>
\n2010 reprise 2020<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Symfonia Pi\u00e9sni Zalosnych<\/em>
\n2010<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Trio (?)<\/em>
\n2008<\/strong> \u00a0\u2013 Petites histoires.com<\/em>
\n2006<\/strong> \u2013 Les corps \u00e9trangers<\/em>
\n2003<\/strong> \u00a0\u2013 Douar<\/em>
\n2002<\/strong> \u00a0\u2013 Pourquoi pas<\/em>
\n2000<\/strong> \u2013 \u00a0Anokha<\/em>
\n1999<\/strong> \u2013 Pri\u00e8re pour un fou<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”6″ accent_color=”#cc171a”][vc_column_text css=””]Photos : \u00a9 Julien Chauvet – \u00a9 Damien Bourletsis[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”3588″ img_size=”large” css=”.vc_custom_1654881526158{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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