BINTOU DEMBÉLÉ

S/T/R/A/T/E/S Quartet

Creation 2015
French Riviera Première

Choreography : Bintou Dembélé
Dance hip-hop and Krump : Bintou Dembélé, Michel Onomo (Meech)
Music : Charles Amblard – Voice : Charlène Andjembé

Bintou Dembélé, one of the great female figures of hip-hop, sheds light on the history inscribed in our bodies, whether personal or colonial.”

Bintou Dembélé, recognised as one of the pioneers of hip-hop in France, confronts memory. In S/T/R/A/T/E/S Quartet, artists initiate states of the body from hip-hop and krump and revisit this memory, touching on African-inspired jazz, blues and polyphony music. This piece is emblematic of the choreographer’s work, as it lays the foundations for the relationship between dance, music, voice which would be spectacularly deployed in the opera-ballet Les Indes Galantes which marked her 2019 debut at the Opéra de Paris.