The contemporary and hip-hop dance performance featuring nine dancers on stage will take place on Sunday at 6 p.m.
This Sunday at 6 p.m., the Symphony Hall at the Auditorio de Tenerife will host Prélude, a dance performance by France’s Accrorap Company, one of the leading contemporary dance companies in the world. The piece features nine dancers and blurs the lines between hip-hop and contemporary styles.
Prélude is the story of the meeting between the music of the multifaceted composer Romain Dubois and the physicality of the dancers. The music, a rhythmic and melodious crescendo, maintains its intensity, gradually building to a crescendo of tension. The dancers’ virtuosity beats in unison with the music and the spectators’ attention. This tension increases, and the community of dancers becomes one body, moving in unison to the very end. The spectator is drawn in by this raw energy that takes them through the different states of these bodies and emotions. Holding their breath, they too embark on the journey proposed to them, participating in this release and final liberation.
As a prelude to the establishment of the Accrorap Company in the Southern Region, this work is an invitation made by Kader Attou to ten or so professional hip-hop dancers of the Region to explore his artistic universe. This ‘all terrain’ work, presented for the first time at The Marseille festival, has the vocation of reaching all publics and bringing hip-hop dance to where it is least expected, the depths of choreographic creation, to weave links between the leading partners of the territory and the artists.
Recognised as one of the greatest pioneers of contemporary and hip-hop dance, Kader Attou continues to revolutionise the world of choreography and urban dance. Thanks to a humanist approach that fuses genres and cultures, Attou has been helping to integrate hip-hop into today’s choreographic language for many years.
A child of immigrants, he explores questions of identity, difference and otherness, transforming them into a place of convergence where a community of bodies and emotions is built. From the outset, Kader Attou has been passionate about urban dance, which he sees as an artistic discipline of exceptional poetry and strength, as well as a means of questioning the human condition. To explore this approach further, he and several young dancers set up Accrorap.
In 2008, Kader Attou was appointed director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de La Rochelle, becoming the first hip-hop choreographer to head a national institution in France. In 2013, Kader Attou was promoted by the President of the French Republic to the rank of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts and in 2015, he was also named Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur.
The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 and €5 for audiences under 30 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium’s box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Check the special discounts for students, unemployed people and large families, among others.