Vagabond Crew

Born in February 2000 and surrounded by strong personalities (Mohamed Belarbi, Salah Belemqawanssa, Lamine Diouf, and Si’Mhamed Benhalima), Vagabond Crew is one of the three French teams to have won the “double-double”, the best choreographic show, and winner of the battle in the Battle of The Year International 2006 and 2011, following a place as vice-champion in the battle and as champion in the show in 2002. Another record: the team won the UK Bboy World Series (London), for two years running in 2010 and 2011.

Mohamed BELARBI, at the head of the company, boasts a number of creations. He writes with all the energy of the street and battles. His style is direct and legible, and codes, movements and formations are those of hip hop dance. Chienne de Vie, his first creation, is the result of the street experience of the founding members of Vagabond Crew during summer tours in the south of France. An encounter with vagabonds inspired the troupe’s name as well as this first creation. Later on, the film Amadeus gave the choreographer the idea to create a duo. In the creation Alien, the Crew chose as its theme the influence of death on human behaviours.

Aware that our era is marked by cultural and social clashes, Mohamed Belarbi attaches great importance to the exemplary values that must be upheld by a Hip Hop dance troupe followed by young people throughout the world. Everyone, whether already familiar with Hip Hop or complete novices, is invited to discover with them an aspect of France that has too easily been caricatured. Through an explosion of spectacular movements, the troupe is always connected to battle energy, the very essence of Hip Hop.

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