Faux Bond
A portrait of Mourad Merzouki2003 - Director : Guillaume, Agnès
Choreographer(s) : Merzouki, Mourad (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne | EMKA , CCN Cie Käfig - Documentaires
Video producer : Zycopolis Productions & Cités Télévision
Faux Bond
A portrait of Mourad Merzouki2003 - Director : Guillaume, Agnès
Choreographer(s) : Merzouki, Mourad (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne | EMKA , CCN Cie Käfig - Documentaires
Video producer : Zycopolis Productions & Cités Télévision
Faux Bond
A sensitive portrait of Mourad Merzouki and Compagnie Käfig which presents excerpts from performances, the dancers at work, the preparation of Mekech Mouchkin in Algiers in 2003 and interviews with personalities from the world of dance.
Mekech Mouchkin
For the Year of Algeria in France in 2003, Mourad Merzouki and Kader Attou came together to create Mekech Mouchkin - Y'a pas de problème with dancers from Algiers.
Merzouki, Mourad
A major figure on the hip-hop scene since the early 1990s, Merzouki works at the crossroads of many different disciplines: he adds circus, martial arts, fine arts, video and live music to his exploration of hip-hop dance. Without losing sight of the roots of hip-hop movement – of its social and geographical origins – this multidisciplinary approach opens new horizons and reveals original outlooks. Since 1996, 30 creations have been performed in 700 cities and 65 countries, with more than 3,000 performances given for 1.7 million people. Since 2009, Merzouki is director of the Centre chorégraphique national de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne, where he created the festival Kalypso, a Parisian twin of his festival Karavel in the region of Lyon. In 2016, he is also appointed artistic director of Pôle en Scènes in Bron.
More information : http://ccncreteil.com/
Guillaume, Agnès
Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne | EMKA
In June 2009, Mourad Merzouki was appointed director of the CCN de Créteil and Val-de-Marne (National Choreography Centre), where he has developed his vision of dance as “an open window on the world”. Since the creation of the Käfig Company in 1996, the choreographer has been able to expand the language of hip-hop by working at where multiple disciplines intersect: circus, martial arts, contemporary dance and more. His pieces are currently touring the world. Supported by the State and local authorities, the Centres chorégraphiques nationaux (CCN) promote the development of dance, both through the creative impulse of their directors-choreographers, but also by supporting choreographic artists of various styles, by presenting works and by raising public awareness of the art of dance.
Today there are 19 Centres chorégraphiques nationaux. The CCN de Créteil is one of the first to have been created, by Maguy Marin. Three of them are now run by hip-hop choreographers, in Créteil (Mourad Merzouki), La Rochelle (Kader Attou) and Rennes (FAIR-E collective).
Mourad Merzouki has been at the head of the Centre chorégraphique national de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne / Compagnie Käfig since 2009. He is developing an artistic project that is both open to the world and rooted in the territory, transcending aesthetic, cultural and social boundaries. Tours, workshops, residencies, the Kalypso festival : there are many opportunities to discover and celebrate hip-hop dance, an art form that has become, in over 30 years, a strong marker of the cultural identity of our heritage.
Faux Bond
Artistic direction / Conception : Agnès Guillaume
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Zycopolis Productions & Cités Télévision
Duration : 52 minutes