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“One day, by chance, I found myself at a neighborhood party with the West Indian and Arab children of the fathers with whom I had been in the factory. They didn’t know the working culture and didn’t have this idea at all that they had a culture to offer. Whereas in hip hop, there was a joy in asserting one’s difference. I became aware of the strength, of the lever represented by hip hop as an expression of the underprivileged classes. I wanted to film this. It took me 3 years to find financing. TV thought it was American subculture and didn’t understand that it was an autodidact culture, different from that of Power. In addition, their samples, their DIY and montages resemble what I do in my films.”

– Jean-Pierre Thorn

Aktuel Force is a group of five boys and a girl gathered around Gabien Nuissier, an enthusiast who is a pioneer. Coming from the eastern suburbs of Paris, fervent defenders of the movement, they form one of the most prominent hip hop dance groups today. Their creation retraces and testifies through the energy of hip hop to the evolution of humanity, its fears, its strengths. 

Source: Danse Ville Danse – Maison de la danse

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