We expect noise, spectacle, and a lot of people, the Arkéa Arena in Bordeaux Métropole next June 12. The Floirac room will indeed host the final of the French breakdance championship, or breaking, which will make its debut as a sport at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
This competition, organized by the French Dance Federation, Bordeaux Métropole and the company based on the right bank of Bordeaux The Associates Crew, will allow the general public to discover this discipline born in the street more than forty years ago, and resulting from hip-hop culture. “Hosting this competition in Bordeaux is a great recognition for this dance which has always been very present in Bordeaux and Aquitaine”, assures Babacar Cissé, the creator of the company Les Associés Crew and dancer since 1984.
A sport, but above all a dance
If you are curious to go to the Arena to discover this dance, but you know nothing about it, Omar Remichi, coordinator at the FFD and manager of Last Squad Crew, Bordeaux team world champion in 2019, recalls that There are four main categories within breakdancing: top rock, footwork, power move and tricks. Himself a specialist in top rock, Omar Remichi explains that this category is the one “where we look at the personality of the performer, with a very danced side and a lot of musicality”. A way of remembering that if the discipline enters the Olympics as a sport, it is also and perhaps above all a dance.
This passage as an Olympic discipline is not necessarily a bad experience for its practitioners, far from it. “It is above all a form of consecration” assures Babacar Cissé, and “that will not prevent the “street” side from always existing. »