WINNERS SHOW DANCE 3rd edition of the AFRO PEPITES SHOW :
·•● Winner of Category AFROS PEPITES :
La Halla KinzoO // Morocco
// Break Dance, Hip Hop ●•·
La Halla KingzoO, are 8 very sparkling energies, full of bright
imaginations… To be discovered!
Video in competition: SHOW BOTY 2008
Additional videos: The Futur Toast // Maâlem Omar Hayat & La
Halla KingzoO – Live au Festival Gnawa 2011
Pictures: Par Raphael DOVELOS
Social
Networks: www.facebook.com/LaHallaKingzoO
INFO for ORGANIZORS, MEDIA,…: La Halla KingzoO Crew are based in Casablanca
(Morocco)
// Contact
Manager: Anass.elgad@gmail.com
Biography : Created in 2002, La
Halla KingZoO is a band of break-dance consisting in 8 dancers. These young
breakers started to dance in the streets and their only aim was to represent Hip Hop & African Culture African in international
events.
It's in the streets that the young breakers of La Halla KingzoO began before winning
three times Morocco Championship (2005,
2006 and 2007) and presented their Style, Culture, Original Movement in famous
places abroad.
La Halla KingzoO participated to several international championships,
in Austria,
France,
Spain,
Denmark,
Holland, Portugal, UK, Island of la Réunion… They won an award in the African
Championship in Senegal (2008), but their trip was financed by themselves and
it took them 5 days to go there and 6 days to come back… from Casablanca to Dakar. They got qualified for
the world championship in Germany
to represent Morocco
and Africa for the first time, thus becoming
the first band of Arabic countries to represent African Hip-Hop at such a level
of competition. The following year the young breakers won the price of the best
show at the festival «If the world can’t speak, he can dance» in Hageuneau, France…
·•● 2rd of Category AFROS PEPITES : Compagnie NEMJA // Morocco, France,
Tunisia,
Russia…
// Contemporary oriental dance ●•·
The Compagnie NEMJA turns, sways, shakes in the rhythm of the four
elements. Like nature, which is made of curves and roundness…
Video in competition: Les Roses de Sable
Their site : www.compagnienejma.net
Social
Networks: www.facebook.com/compagnienejma
INFO for ORGANIZORS, MEDIA, MANAGERS… : The compagnie
NEMJA is based in Baron sur Odon (Calvados,
France) // Contact Manager : No manager. Contact the representative
of the band and the Artistic Direction VeroRiantale@voila.fr
Biography: « A development in the dazzling planet of sands: « this
smooth rock on which we float » said Théodore Monod … dance of the infinite,
infinite of the desert… place of interaction between the human body and its
immediate environment.
Six young dancers performed a great show created and choreographed
by Véronique Ben Ahmed "Les Roses de Sable". Six women arrive in the
desert and evolve in the rhythm of the four elements, symbolized by some materials.
Thus, during one hour Véronique Ben Ahmed and her 5 dancers dress themselves
with blue or fire. "Les Roses de Sable" start with the sound of an
Oriental story, that the dancers illustrate thanks to an ochre stole, such as a
sand dune in the desert… With naked feet, freed, offered to voluptuousness,
softness, tiny things facing a blond and creamy universe covered, dressed by
the evening, adding a satin, phosphorescence finish with shadows, some vagabonds
stopped in a corner of sand sea… turn, sway, shake in the rhythm of the four
elements. Like nature, which is made of curves, roundness, and which sometimes
upset us with its trembling. Circular aspect of this dance symbolized by the 8,
sign of the infinite, liaised with the infinite of the desert, place of the interaction
between the human body and its immediate environment. »
Choregraphy for 6 dancers by Véronique BEN AHMED
Duration: 1 hour
·•● 3rd of Category AFROS PEPITES :
Compagnie GUILILI // Cameroon
// Contemporary dance ●•·
The compagnie GUILILI in the rhythm of life, African, European
and American colours...
Video in competition: NIHANG^AN
Their site: not yet
Social
Networks: not available
INFO for ORGANIZORS, MEDIA, MANAGERS,… : The compagnie GUILILI is based in Yaoundé (Cameroon) // Contact Manager : no
manager yet. Contact the
representative of the band cie_guilili@hotmail.fr
Biography: The compagnie GUILILI is a company of contemporary dance which stresses a mix of
African, European and Amerianc dances. All this becomes special thanks to
how easily the choreographer assosciates dance with contemporary sounds with
African music instruments such as Ndjembè, balafon, castanets.
In June 2008 the Choreographer-Dancer Marc Bertrand
MOADA YAKANA notes bitterly that Mbam dance and the culture of Mbam department
(from where he is) has been dying because young people seem to be not
interested anymore in art in general and dance in particular.
With the Compagnie GUILILI, the project YAKANA is born
thanks to the Choreographer-Dancer Marc Bertrand MOADA YAKANA. According to him, dance is the rhythm of
life in all Africa, in Cameroon and
Mbam. Thus, he gathered his brother, two uncles with whom the project started
to be developed in order first to defend the family inheritage and then the
cultural inheritage of Africa through block
contemporary dance. The project YAKANA was created in November 2008 and
January; called nihang^ in Yambassa (Noutchoula) language which means dance. The
project performed for the first time in January 2009 in the Centre Culturel
Français François Villon in Yaoundé and was a real success; today the project
is asked for in several festivals in Cameroon and in Africa.
Members of the band:
Fabien YAKANA BILIMINA; (Dancer Choreographer)
Marc
Bertrand MOADA YAKANA (Dancer
Choreographer)
Alain
Claude ALAKA YAKANA (Dancer)
Eric
BAGA YAKANA (Dancer)
And
TCHIWU René, Administrator
