Feedback in hip hop Dance: Between Space of Relation, Diasporic Transmission, and Method of Control
15:30 – 35 min.
by Yolande Lejus
Born of the dynamics of exchange in cyphers and battles, feedback in hip hop dance constitutes an event coextensive with dance movement, inscribed in an ecology of listening, gesture, and divided attention. This paper proposes a critical reading of its transformation when its incorporated in the institutional frameworks. That which once functioned as a situated and collective improvised flux becomes a tool of regulation that submits to logics normalization and academic recognition. Mobilizing dance critical theory, diasporic epistemologies, and postcolonial analytics, the current discussion considers feedback a space cut through with tension, operating at the core of relations structuring transmission.
To Cipher in Hip Hop Dance
16:05 – 35 min.
by Guylène Motais Louvel and Iffra Dia
The exploratory practice presented in this talk has been ongoing for four years. A dancer/choreographer (hip hop), grade school and middle school teachers, a cultural moderator, education consultants, and a scholar have together formed a research collective to study knowledge developed by students aged 9 to 12 years old. The « Faire cercle » [To Cipher] in hip hop is at the heart of this collective research, operating at the intersection of several institutions: the Resource Hub for Artistic and Cultural Dance of Brittany (le Pôle de ressources pour l’éducation artistique et culturelle Danse Bretagne), in partnership with the Ministries of Culture, National Education, and the CCNRB [National Center of Choreography of Rennes and Brittany] / FAIR-E collective, as well as research in comparative pedagogy. The paper will articulate the processes created for the construction of the circle in hip hop dance, explain the lines of inquiry the research lab pursued, and the knowledge it produced via digital information.
The Acquisition of Social Legitimacy for hip hop Dance in Japan: Focusing on Its Incorporation into School Education
16:40 – 35 min.
by Akihiro Arikuni
This presentation examines how hip hop dance, once viewed as a delinquent subculture in Japan, gained legitimacy through integration into school education. Initially linked to negative stereotypes and even restricted by law, hip hop dance was gradually reframed as a creative and constructive activity. A major shift occurred in 2012, when it became a compulsory part of junior high PE. Government-backed groups developed teaching materials and certification programs, facilitating its institutional acceptance. Today, hip hop dance features in school programs, media, the D.LEAGUE, and even the Olympics. This case shows how foreign subcultures can be redefined through education and become part of mainstream culture, paralleling developments in France.
Films
17:30 – 60 min.
Around the pavement
by Gabriel Naghmouchi
The film explores the memory of hip hop and jazz rock dances in France through the stories of key figures in emblematic sites. It retraces the trajectories of these artists while probing the transformation—even the disappearance—of sites and spaces that supported the culture. It takes on the pau city of visual archival material and proposes an approach attuned to collective memory.
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Gestures and Postures
by Raphaël Stora