A professional workshop offering participants an introduction to breakdancing, providing a unique opportunity for interaction and exchange with dancer and choreographer Anne Nguyen, creator of the performance Witch Hunting.
The workshop starts by establishing an ‘animal-like’,’useful’ relationship to floor movement: how to optimise each posture to create maximum room for movement, how to use each posture to move around, how to move from one position to another… Then the choreographic construction work starts by transposing a basic movement in different directions, ranges, heights, trajectories or energies, integrating ‘obstacles’ or composing logical progressions. Anne’s objective is to instill conscious reflexes into the dancers to allow them to build with as much freedom as possible.
The workshop will encourage both individual exploration and collective learning, creating an inclusive environment where participants can challenge themselves, support one another and share the energy of the cypher.
Suitable for adults and young adults. Dress comfortably.
Anne Nguyen is the founder of par Terre Dance Company and creator of Witch Hunting in this year’s programme and [Superstrat[ and Matière(s) première(s) which were part of the 2025 Baboró festival programme. If possible, we recommend seeing the show before attending the workshop.
Dancer, choreographer, author and theatre director Anne Nguyen founded the par Terre Dance Company in 2005. She has created about twenty shows, several interactive installations and short films. She also wrote a collection of poems and several articles on dance.
Coming from the world of breakdance battles and influenced by scientific studies, she combines urban social dances with a geometrical, pure, destructured choreographic expression that exalts the power of abstraction. She derives her inspiration from mathematics, martial arts, utopia and myths. She draws from the observation of gestures, danced as well as ordinary, individual as well as collective, to turn urban dances and popular cultures into a support for a reflection on tradition, on social markers, on diversity, on cultural appropriation and on the tensions between multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism.
Regularly called upon for her expertise on urban dances and cultural issues, Anne Nguyen has participated in numerous debates and symposiums and gives conferences that put into perspective dance, culture, and society.