Étant donné la conjoncture actuelle... [transmission 2017]

Extrait remonté par le groupe Street Dancers (Kaweni), responsable artistique Sophie Huvet, dans le cadre de Danse en amateur et répertoire (2016)

An extract remodelled by the Street Dancers group (Kaweni), artistic manager Sophie Huvet, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2016) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

The group
The 500 amateur hip-hop dancers of the association Hip Hop Evolution make up the pool of the Street Dancers group that units some twenty interpreters aged 14 to 20. Created in 2014 in Kaweni, Mayotte and led by Sophie Huvet, this collective had the additional challenge of responding by creation to the struggles of rival youth gangs in Mayotte. A show, Malaïka, was staged and shown in eight secondary schools.

The project
The choice of the work, Étant donné la conjoncture actuelle (1999), highlights the talents of these young hip-hop dance amateurs but in theatrical mode with a sense of humour. A festoon of colourful characters, this show makes fun of clichés with a force and panache that sweep up the entire public into the adventure. Elena Bertuzzi, Laura Scozzi’s assistant and notator, ensures the transmission of an extract from the work that “runs the risk” of being completely in harmony with the group’s vitality.

The choreographer
Somewhere in between choreography and opera, with a clear penchant for the latter since 2005, Laura Scozzi, with a background in classical, contemporary, jazz and tap dance as well as theatre before enrolling in the Milan department of sociology, emerges as an iconoclastic lookout on the contemporary dance scene. At the head of her company Opinioni in Movimento, created in 1994, Scozzi combines an aphrodisiac elixir of gestures and texts, instilled with a sense of the comical and preposterous in its most jubilant form. Alongside her shows, she regularly collaborates with stage directors such as Coline Serreau, Laurent Pelly and Sébastien Lifschitz.