The motto: 'Everything is red'
The colour red is visually eclipsed, it does not appear in any of the scenography, nor the costumes, nor the lighting. Red is omnipotent, from states of the body, choreography, emotion, that which can be seen and felt.
 

An ambiguous colour, it plays with paradox and guides intense and passionate feelings in total contrast with one another. Whether the passions it arouses are beneficial or harmful, this colour leaves no one indifferent – that is its very power.
 

Red is truly the global state of the show.
 

The gestural stance:
“I wish to draw on a contemporary reading of hip hop dance techniques while maintaining continuity with previous works.
The dancers chosen for this choreography are seven 'b-boy' virtuosos, who evolve with strength and sensitivity through hip hop dance inspired by different styles. Some of the dancers have developed a hybrid form of movement, having trained in classical and/or contemporary dance. The performers have conflicting movements and relationships with the floor – the idea is to draw on this contrast between the dancers to support the concept of the piece. By calling upon each character's history, their uniqueness, their wealth and their experiences, together they forge a path through various emotions to transform the group and their dances. It really is the sense of emotions that this creation aims to emulate.
If hip hop dance were a colour, it would be red.”

Mickaël le Mer

Updating: March 2016

Born in 1977, Mickaël Le Mer discovered hip hop in the 90s, during the '2nd wave'. He first trained as part of the collective adventure of the S'Poart Company in 1996. It was in this collective context that Mickaël Le Mer made his first attempts as a choreographer, and, with "In Vivo" (2007), he launched and took on a demanding form of creation that draws on the personal experience of dancers. The result bears the hallmark of a sensitivity that is both poetic and urban, while at the same time developing a great mastery of the stage space and every component of the show (lighting, set design, music, etc.).

His work was most notably rewarded in 2009 with the second jury prize in the Re-Connaissance contemporary dance contest, which is a competition organised jointly by the Maison de la Danse in Lyon and the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique (CDC) in Grenoble. Following this success, Mickaël Le Mer, the company's artistic director and choreographer, was invited by the Institut Français (previously Cultures France) to create a piece as part of the 2010 France-Russia cultural exchange year. This commission resulted in the creation of the Franco-Russian piece "Na Grani", a piece of choreography for ten male and female Russian and French dancers from hip hop and contemporary dance backgrounds. "Na Grani" was played for the first time at the Lyon Biennale de la Danse in 2010.

In 2012, he created "Instable", "Rock it daddy" in 2013, "Rouge" in 2014 and the trio "Traces" in 2015. Mickaël is also working on his next creation "Crossover" which will be released in autumn 2017.

Source: Châteauvallon-Scène Nationale show program

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