Les Indes Galantes
French Cinema • 5m 26s
Hip-hop dancers form a "battle" to the music of the "Danse des sauvages" from Rameau's ballet Les Indes Galantes. The savagery of this dance, made of blows and threats, is a political message: it is Krump, a hip-hop dance style born in the 2000s in the heart of the poor neighborhoods of Los Angeles to denounce police violence.
DIRECTED BY CLEMENT COGITORE
FRANCE | 2017
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