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, Kader Attou has been helping to integrate the world of 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 a number of young dancers set up the CieAccrorap, which went on to become one of the leading contemporary dance companies in the world.
In 2008, Kader Attou was appointed director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de La Rochelle, becoming the first choreographer from the hip hop world 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.