Macadam Macadam

Musical show for 11 hip hop dancers, roller skaters and biker.
Premiere: Festival Suresnes Cités Danse in 1999
Recreated in January 2006 at the Mogador Theater and Massy Opera.
Duration time: 70 mn

Globe de Cristal 2007 for best choreography (Opera / Dance).
(Award of the french press)

Choreography and direction: Blanca Li
Original music: Antoine Hervé
Additional music: «Singing in the rain» and «Get happy» (with the authorization of EMI France). Other additional music: Tao Gutierrez.
Set: Bernard Michel and Elsa Ejchenrand – Lights: Didier Girard – Costumes: Laurent Mercier with the support of ADIDAS
Stage director: Gino Totaro – Sound technician: Antoine Imbert – Light technician: Mathieu Roy

Dancers: Amin Benassa, Malika Benjelloun, Andrea Bescond, Grichka Caruge, Karlos Da Silva, Ahmed Karetti, François Lamargot, Espérance Miézi
Roller skaters: Lamine Fathi and Mohamed Sylla
Biker (BMX): Alex Jumelin

Production: Compagnie Blanca Li – Special thanks to: Théâtre de Suresnes (festival Suresnes Cités danse), Opéra de Massy, Théâtre Mogador. Created with Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, re-created with “Conseil Général” of Essonne and DRAC Ile-de-France.

Initiated by the Festival Suresnes Cités Danse that Olivier Meyer has been organizing for several years at the Théâtre de Suresnes, Macadam Macadam was received enthusiastically by the press and the audience alike ever since its first creation in 1999. From then on, the show has always been a great success, at the Festival d’Avignon as well as on tour, in France (Opéra Comique), in Europe and in the United States (New Haven Festival).

The world of Macadam Macadam, a stage turned into a street and towered by a roller ramp, reflects the “street culture” generation. Thanks to her multifaceted talent, her energetic temperament and her insatiable curiosity, the Spanish choreographer Blanca Li knows how to be sensitive with wit, and provocative with elegance. With 11 young virtuoso performers, she stages a successful combination of hip hop and contemporary creation, both intelligent and subtle. Hip hop rhythms meet music hall, and the choreographic pieces run from dancing to roller-skating, from biking to acrobatics. The performers’ spontaneity and sense of humor reach far beyond a simplified vision of reality and overwhelm us by their mere pleasure to dance.

«For me, a live show is alive only when it is preformed on stage. When one of my creations doesn’t tour, it just stops living. And after some time I start to miss it -just like an old friend I haven’t seen for a while. It’s exactly what happened to me with Macadam.
But in order to put the show back to life, I had to give it a whole new energy. I wanted to put in some new elements and take into account the creative evolution of the street culture and its constantly renewed means of expression. I put a new team together with some of the dancers already present in 1999 and a few new comers. I also remodeled some parts of the choreography, for the solos as well as for the collective pieces. I didn’t want to stress the individual virtuosity of the performers, which are all excellent, as much as insist on the contrast between the various styles and personalities.
The 2006 re-creation was born from this encounter: it shows how individuals from very different backgrounds can go beyond their own frontiers, unite their energy and create a whole new alphabet together.»
B.L.

Dates de tournée

Forbach
/
France
16 May 2013
Le Carreau, Scène nationale de Forbach
Festival "Perspectives" de Sarrebruck
Merignac
/
France
19 March 2013
Le Pin Galant
Auch
/
France
17 March 2013
Circa
17 et 18 mars, 2 représentations
Alfortville
/
France
19 January 2013
Le Pole Culturel
Barcelone
/
Espagne
19 April 2012
Mercat de les Flors
Du 19 au 28 avril
Barcelone
/
Espagne
7 July 2011
Festival GREC
Rueil-Malmaison
/
France
18 March 2009
Théâtre André Malraux
Les Ulis
/
France
30 January 2009
Centre Culterel Boris Vian
Privas
/
France
15 January 2009
Théâtre Privas
Les 15 et 16 janvier
Tunis
/
Tunisie
1 May 2008
Théâtre Municipal
Lorient
/
France
8 April 2008
Grand Théâtre
Le 8 et 9 avril
Blagnac
/
France
8 January 2008
Odyssud
Du 8 au 1à janvier;
Barcelone
/
Espagne
21 December 2007
Mercat de les Flors
Les 21, 23, 26 et 29 décembre.
Madrid
/
Espagne
12 November 2007
Théâtre de l'Institut Français
Châtellerault
/
France
31 March 2007
Complexe de l'Angelarde
St. Germain en Laye
/
France
30 March 2007
Théâtre Alexandre Dumas
Aulnay-sous-Bois
/
France
21 March 2007
Espace Jacques Prévert
Valenciennes
/
France
20 March 2007
Le Phénix
Isters
/
France
17 March 2007
Théâtre de l'Olivier
Grasse
/
France
14 February 2007
Théâtre de Grasse
Paris
/
France
6 June 2006
Théâtre Mogador
Du 6 au 18 juin
Massy
/
France
26 January 2006
Opéra
Du 26 au 28 janvier
Madrid
/
Espagne
2 June 2002
Festival Schweppes Urban Mix
Niort
/
France
7 March 2002
Moulin du Roc
07 et 08 mars
Suresnes
/
France
29 January 2002
Théâtre Jean Vilar
Du 29 janvier au 02 février
Corbeil-Essonnes
/
France
20 January 2002
Théâtre
Vichy
/
France
17 January 2002
Opéra
Recklinghqusen
/
Allemagne
17 May 2001
Théâtre Recklinghausen
Du 17 au 20 mai
Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray
/
France
23 March 2001
Le Rive Gauche
St-Michel-sur-Orge
/
France
17 March 2001
Space Marcel Carré
Élancourt
/
France
16 March 2001
Le Prisme
Meaux
/
France
10 March 2001
Théâtre Luxembourg
Nanterre
/
France
2 March 2001
Maison de la Musique
Les 02 et 03 mars
Brest
/
France
28 February 2001
Le Quartz
Vannes
/
France
24 February 2001
Palais des Arts
Saint Brieuc
/
France
22 February 2001
Scène Nationale
St. Polten
/
Austriche
17 February 2001
Festspielhaus
Paris
/
France
16 January 2001
Opéra Comique
Du 16 au 28 janv.
Louvière
/
Belgique
11 January 2001
Théâtre La Louvière
Beauvais
/
France
20 December 2000
Théâtre
Le Mans
/
France
19 December 2000
Palais des Congrès
Dieppe
/
France
17 December 2000
Centre Jean Renoir
Voiron
/
France
12 December 2000
Le Grand Angle
Les 12 et 13 déc
Annemasse
/
France
10 December 2000
Relais culturel du Châtequ
Montceau-les-Mines
/
France
8 December 2000
CAR
Gennevilliers
/
France
30 November 2000
Salle des Fêtes
Narbonne
/
France
28 November 2000
Scène Nationale
Laon
/
France
24 November 2000
Maison des Arts
Metz
/
France
22 November 2000
L'Arsenal
Meudon
/
France
19 November 2000
Théâtre
Nantes
/
France
13 November 2000
Théâtre
Du 13 au 15 novembre
Rodez
/
France
10 November 2000
Théâtre
Angoulême
/
France
7 November 2000
Théâtre
Vernon
/
France
2 November 2000
Espace Philippe Auguste
Newhaven
/
USA
27 June 2000
Festival de Newhaven
Du 27 juin au 01 juillet
Saint Brieuc
/
France
9 June 2000
Théâtre
Les 09 et 10 juin
Dortmund
/
Allemagne
28 May 2000
Théâtre
Manosque
/
France
20 April 2000
Théâtre Jean Lebleu
Aulnay-sous-Bois
/
France
18 April 2000
Espace Jacques Prévert
Montelimar
/
France
6 April 2000
Théâtre Municipal
Biarritz
/
France
4 April 2000
Biarritz Culture
Dunkerque
/
France
1 April 2000
Le Bateau Feu
Noisy-Le-Grand
/
France
28 March 2000
Espace Michel Simon
Sartrouville
/
France
28 March 2000
Théâtre
Les 21 et 22 mars
Issoudun
/
France
17 March 2000
Centre Albert Camus
Orléans
/
France
15 March 2000
Scène Nationale
Les 15 et 16 mars
Maubeuge
/
France
29 February 2000
Le Manège
Nevers
/
France
11 February 2000
Maison de la Culture
Suresnes
/
France
28 January 2000
Théâtre Jean Vilar
Du 28 au 30 janv.
Décines
/
France
15 October 1999
Le Toboggan
Créteil
/
France
25 September 1999
Maison des Arts et de la Culture
25 sept et du 6 au 9 oct
Avignon
/
France
28 July 1999
Cour de la Faculté des Sciences
Festival d'Avignon, du 28 au 31 juillet
Suresnes
/
France
15 January 1999
Théâtre Jean Vilar
Première du 15 au 19 janv.
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