"J’arrive” When the universe of Jacques Brel comes face to face with Hip Hop

Hip Hop Dance Solo by French Dancer Aurélien Kairo, De Fakto Company

L’Alliance Française and Words Beats & Life present

 “J’arrive” Hip Hop Dance Solo by French Dancer Aurélien Kairo

When the universe of Jacques Brel comes face to face with the Hip Hop solo of Aurélien Kairo, De Fakto Company

At age 30, Aurélien Kairo is successfully pursuing a faultless career as a choreographer and trainer, but also as a dancer for Pietragalla, Béjart and for less “classical” and renowned hip hop companies such as Accrorap or Käfig. From the street to the theaters, from the urban scene to the rural world, the relationship with his audiences, to all generations, is at the heart of Aurélien Kairo’s creative process.

This self-taught native of Lyon discovered hip-hop dance in 1993. Today he is the artistic director of the De Fakto Company which offers a hybrid and lively dance language where music, emotion, laughter, and the gravity of feelings have priority.

Throughout his career, Aurélien Kairo has been able to nourish and enrich his art by these multiple exchanges. In 2000, with free reign in Genoa, Maurice Béjart gave the young dancer the chance to present a short piece “All Around the World” in public. He would next dance in several Béjart performances, The Child King, "The Jerk" and the performances "Light of Waters", "The Presbytery" and "Boléro".

Since 2005, Aurélien Kairo has lent his talent to Marie-Claude Pietragalla in the performance of Human Conditions [“Conditions humaines"]. In the interim, he criss-crossed the world with the Accrorap Company from 2000 to 2001 the Käfig Company from 2002 to 2005 and the Malka Company from 2004 to 2005.

The new performance by the De Fakto Company J’arrive! was first staged at the Dance Biennial in Lyons in 2006, at the Festival Drôle(s) d’hip hop in Avignon in 2007 before being performed in 2008 at the Rencontres Cultures Urbaines de La Villette.

Program

New dance solo, inspired by hip-hop dance and the repertory of songs by Jacques Brel.

Duration: 50 minutes without intermission.

A man seated somewhere with a bouquet of flowers in his hand, is obviously waiting for a woman.

This story recounts the desperate quest for love, old age, and death. Carried along by the humanistic universe of the songs of Jacques Brel, a dancer navigates between Buster Keaton and Fred Astaire and provides us with a unique, hybrid dance language, with its roots in hip hop." J’arrive! [I’m coming!] "Tender, funny, poetic, and brilliant!" Guy Boley, July 2006 (Dramaturgy and direction)

General Admission $18; Alliance Française Members and WBL’s Cipher members $12.

To make reservations, call 202-234-7911. Reservations will be accepted until 4:00pm the day of the concert. Cash-only at the door.

Organized in collaboration with la Délégation Générale de l’Alliance Française, USA.

Link to De Fakto Company’s website: www.compagniedefakto.com
Links to audio clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7tBii27DxM
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/solo%2Bj%2527arrive/video/x7wxlc_extrait-solo-jarrive-8-minutes_creation