Sébastien Lefrançois

Born on July 21st 1969 in Harfleur, he came to dance and movement through the figure skating that he began at the age of 6 and which he practised at an advanced level between the ages of 12 and 24. His encounter with hip-hop coincided with Sidney’s regular television programmes on French channel TF1 in 1984.

Some years later, he discovered theatrical and choreographic creation and obtained two State Diplomas in jazz dance and contemporary dance in the early 1990s.

In 1994 he founded the Trafic de Styles company with dancers from Cergy-Pontoise, and became its artistic director. In 2007 Olivier Meyer, director of the Théâtre Jean Vilar (Vitry-sur-Seine), appointed him as an associated artist with Cités Danse Connexions, the main structure for the production, dissemination and teaching of hip-hop dance in France.

Sébastien Lefrançois has also collaborated as a performer in “Tana-Cergy” (1998), a Franco-Malagasy hip-hop dance theatre show, directed by Vincent Colin and Elie Rajaonarison, Jean Cocteau’s “Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel”, a Franco-Namibian choreography directed by Vincent Colin, and Alexis de Toqueville’s “La Démocratie en Amérique”, also directed by Vincent Colin (2003).
    He has collaborated on the choreography of Amos Tutuola’s “The Palm-Wine Drinkard”, directed by Philippe Adrien (2002), “Fenêtres Secrètes”, a dance theatre creation with the Yun Chane company (2004), “Le Garçon aux Sabots”, directed by Luc Laporte (2007), and “Ma Vie, Mon Œuvre, Mon Pédalo” directed by François Berdeaux (2007).

In 2008 Trafic de Styles began a three-year residency at the Espace Germinal de Fosses (Val-d’Oise).

Updating: November 2010