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Hip-hop dance The Roots performs in Hanoi

Hip-hop dance The Roots performed at the Vietnam Youth Theatre to kick off the Krossing Over Arts Festival in Hanoi on April 13.
Hip-hop dance The Roots performs in Hanoi ảnh 1The Roots will be performed by 11 male hip-hop artists at Việt Nam Youth Theatre on April 13. (Photo courtesy of the organiser)

Hanoi (VNA) - Hip-hop dance The Roots performedat the Vietnam Youth Theatre to kick off the Krossing Over Arts Festival in Hanoion April 13.

Directed by choreographer Kader Attou, the90-minute dance aims to lead the audience into a space full of nostalgia.

“The performance is inspired by many art genressuch as contemporary dance, circus, comedy and cinema. My idea is to bring theaudience to a dream and a journey to discover the most beautiful things of hiphop art,” said Attou.

The Roots will feature 11 male dancers recreatingthe childhood memories of a 10-year-old Attou through an old record player,records and an old armchair.

The boy from the French town of Lyon fell in lovewith hip hop, as well as circus acts and martial arts. 

Launched in 2013, The Roots has been performed inFrance and in the US, Israel, Italy, Finland, Germany and Switzerland. 

“Pure bomb! Pure hip hop! The vitality of TheRoots, choreographed by Kader Attou for 11 men, explodes in the face like a canof soda too shaken. Hot in front, it flows, it bubbles and it does not stop,turning the plateau into a landscape of geysers constantly active,” reportedFrench newspaper Le Monde.

Born in 1974, Attou is currently the Director ofLa Rochelle National Dance Art Centre. He is the first hip hop choreographer inFrench history to be appointed director of a National Dance Centre.

He is most famous as one of the few hip hopchoreographers in the world to have brought street hip hop to prestigiousacademic theatres.

The Roots performed on April 11 under theframework of the festival in HCM City. “The show in HCM is a very wonderfulmoment. Many people came to watch the show,” said Attou. “They discovered therichness that hip hop art can bring. The audience was very happy and touched.That makes the artists very happy”.

The festival will run in Hanoi till April 21. Itis organised by the France-based Kerman Dance Company and French Institute inVietnam.-VNA
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