The programming changed from usual on Sunday on Skyrock. No freestyle in fact, but politics to accompany host Fred Musa. It must be said that the special guest of the “Planète rap” show this time was not Jul, Niska or even SCH, but Rachida Dati.
At the microphone, the Minister of Culture above all tried to reassure the world of hip-hop about the proposed law aimed at “professionalizing the teaching” of this dance, ensuring that it could be “improved”. She also announced more hip-hop choreographers at the head of institutions.
A diploma which will be assessed at Bac +3 level
Rachida Dati was questioned about a bill adopted by the National Assembly on March 7, supported by the minister, which wants to “professionalize dance teaching by taking into account the diversity of practices”. The text intends to modify the education code which provides that “no one can teach dance for remuneration or use the title of dance teacher”, without a state diploma, an equivalence or an exemption. The article in question currently only concerns classical, contemporary and jazz dances, and the text intends to generalize it to all dances.
The diploma will be assessed at Bac +3 level. The text provides that teachers who have taught a previously unsupervised dance for more than four years will be able to request an exemption. Holders of a diploma from a private school too, via a simplified procedure.
A text that has not yet become law
“The law has not been adopted” – it must still be registered in the Senate – “it is halfway there”, declared Rachida Dati on the station. “So we can improve it”, she said, in favor of “enriching the program which allows us to have (the) validation”.
“Today, the hip-hop professional can give lessons, in entertainment centers, in MJCs (…) but he cannot give hip-hop lessons in conservatories,” he said. she lamented, emphasizing that the discipline, in this case, could certainly be dispensed there, but by a classical, contemporary or jazz dance teacher. “A young hip-hop professional, I would rather see him teaching hip-hop himself in a conservatory rather than a teacher” of the other three dances, she said.
A gesture for the MJC
The minister also announced her intention to increase from three currently to at least “six in 2026” the number of choreographers from hip-hop at the head of the 19 National Choreography Centers. “Hip-hop floods all of French culture and it is very little represented in the authorities, in the institutions,” she added.
Rachida Dati also announced that she was going to make the Youth and Culture Centers (MJC) “eligible” for the Culture Pass. Its objective is to “label the MJC as a “ministry of culture”.