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DETOURS CYPHERS

The festival is bubbling all summer long with the Detours Cyphers: the very essence of the festival!

From July to September, the Cyphers take place every Wednesday in the center of Brussels and in different cities of the FWB (Namur, Liège, Mons, La Louvière) and internationally (Lille – France, Goma – DRC, Casablanca – Morocco) !

They take place in 3 parts:

An open stage accessible to all

A street show: a creation designed for the street, in dance, circus and street art.

A dance “battle” in a different style every week

Over the years, these events have become unifying for the Belgian Hip-Hop community.

They are engines of meetings and allow to cross artistic disciplines to give rise to unique performances!

The final of these Battles brings together the winners of each week on the main stage of the Théâtre National Wallonie Bruxelles, for a colorful closing evening of the festival!

UPCOMING DATES

12/07/2023

12/07/2023

Mont des Arts – Bruxelles

Battle : Tricks

Programmation : Catch Ninja  vs Sexy Latino

Today, El sexy latino has decided to challenge La petite ninja. He is tired of being beaten and wants to recover his honor! With clothesline, uppercut and force collar, he will try to overcome the little Ninja! Which of the two will triumph: big muscles or acrobatics?

19/07/2023

19/07/2023

Mont des Arts – Bruxelles

Battle : Bboying (with restriction)

Honor to Break Dance, the hip-hop dance par excellence! It’s the battle of freezes, spins, powermoves, and other fun things that make your head spin! We spice it all up with a few surprise constraints!

Programmation : Costa Rica All Star

Costa Rica All Star is a delegation of Bboys who come from Costa Rica. Currently on European Tour, this in an opportunity for Detours Festival to present them !

26/07/2023

26/07/2023

Mont des Arts – Bruxelles

Battle : Disabilities

In this battle, the dancers create a constraint (dancing on one leg, blindfolded, with extra weight, etc.). It is a question of making emerge a new creativity, of becoming aware of its own body and of the realities which each one can live in his.

Programmation : Roya The Destroya

Roya was born with only one leg. She makes fun of it by telling various stories about “how she lost her leg”. Roya travels the world: what she likes above all is to do “Streets shows” to be in direct contact with the population. In addition to being an impressive dancer with a great mastery of breakdance, she is also an outstanding actress.

02/08/2023

02/08/2023

Monts des Arts – Bruxelles

Battle : Kids Battle (U18) – All Style (EN)

Calling for kids who already have a B-Boy, B-Girl soul, on track!

Programmation : 

09/08/2023

09/08/2023

Mont des Arts – Bruxelles

Battle : Dancehall 

Dancehall is a Jamaican music born in the late 70s that was danced in parties and nightclubs, it is a hyper energetic dance characterized by movements of the hips and booty.

Programmation : Beatbox battle 2vs2 

16/08/2023

16/08/2023

Mont des Arts – Bruxelles

Battle : 100 % female 

Urban culture – dance, hip-hop, breakdance – is a fairly masculine milieu, often represented by muscular bodies, strength, competition… But over the last ten years or so, more and more women have emerged in this milieu. It’s time to make room for them, and let them take over the dance floor!

Programmation : 

23/08/2023

23/08/2023

Mont des Arts – Bruxelles

Battle : Pole Dance / Acro danse / Contempo

A pole dance battle: between dance and acrobatics!

Programmation : Gratia Plena

“Gratia plena” was created and presented for the Philippe Grombeer tribute at Les Halles de Schaerbeek. It’s a choreography, like a physical experiment, in which the dancer deprives himself of one sense to develop others. For it is by leaving our comfort zone, by destabilizing our supports, that we regain awareness of our own body.

30/08/2023

30/08/2023

Mont des arts – Bruxelles

Battle : Funky Styles – (Lock – Pop – Wacking)

These three styles are, as the name indicates, connected to Funk music, but also Disco. All three were born in California around the beginning of the 70s. Popping is a group of sub-styles developed in different Californian cities, connected by the technique of Pop, a muscular contraction made on the rhythm of the music. Locking is a dance invented by Don Campbellock, which consists of a series of dynamic movements that end in a Lock (a pose that involves the different joints of the body). Waacking is a dance born in the gay community of Los Angeles. This style consists of arm movements performed with force, telling different stories and characters, inspired by silent movie icons, disco stars, martial arts masters, and even cartoons.

Programmation : 

02/09/2023

02/09/2023

Liège

Battle : All Style 

Programmation : Lich All Star

06/09/2023

06/09/2023

Mont des Arts – Bruxelles

Battle : Powermoove

Programmation : Wha7ch Morocco

The word “Whach” means “strong” in Darija (an Arabic dialect spoken in Morocco). For our dancers, as for all the youth they represent, it is a question of being particularly strong and robust to face the challenges of the world that lie ahead! In this project, the dancers are based on respect for traditions and openness to the world.

09/09/2023

08/07/2023

Place de la Bourse – Bruxelles

Battle : “Not Human” All Style (Animation – expérimental – FlexN – …) (FR)

An experimental battle that explores the inhuman, animal, robotic, through various dance styles such as FlexN. FlexN is a style of urban dance from Brooklyn (NYC), characterized by rhythmic contortion movements.

Programmation : Opening of the Bourse Place

10/09/2023

10/09/2023

Namur – Centre Culturel de Bomel

Battle : Footwork 

Footwork is one of the fundamental elements in breakdance. They are movements which are carried out on the ground, it is a form of footwork which the dancers carry out on the ground.

Programmation : 

13/09/2023

13/09/2023

Place de la Bourse – Bruxelles

Battle : Abstrakt 

Experimentation is the watchword: with live music, we will look for what is not obvious, think “outside the box”, create an experimental urban dance.

Programmation : Layers

Jules’ work correlates and links his common passions in which he finds the same energy: dance and graffiti. This project is a mixture between dance and physical performance, plastic art and choreography where the artist abandons himself totally to a release necessary to inspiration and creativity.

20/09/2023

20/09/2023

Place de la Bourse – Bruxelles

Battle : Afro

The last battle before the all styles final focuses on African dances: Ndombolo, Kuduro, Pantsula, etc.

Programmation : Goma Dance All Star (RDC) – Hit Ay7t (Maroc)

DETOURS QUARTIERS

Detours Quartiers are mediation actions that allow us to reach a disadvantaged public, by going directly in the street to meet them. During free workshops, champions of the battles pass on their passion for dance to the youngest.

In order to offer rich and complete moments, as during the Cyphers, we offer international street performances. This is the opportunity for everyone to have a new approach of urban culture and have access to quality program !

We observe a real mix of audiences in the Detours Quartier: the regular audience of the Detours who follow the events every week travel to these neighborhoods where we can observe a real social mix.

DETOURS NEIGHBORHOODS X CHICAGO X SMALL CHATEAU

For 2023, A project is being created in collaboration with the mediation unit of the National Theater: a Detours Quartier in Chicago (Brussels) preceded by actions at the “Petit Château”, a center for asylum seeker.

We wish to develop our mediation actions with this project in order to create a link with asylum seekers around urban dance.

These actions will encourage residents to participate in Detours Quartiers in Chicago, to take advantage of quality urban dance program, and to take part in the battle which will allow the winner to dance at the TN during the final!

UPCOMING DATES

26/08/2023

Hover Box Element

ALL STYLE

Forest

03/09/2023

03/09/2023

AFGHAN VIBES 

Quartier Chicago

16/09/23

16/09/23

HOUSE DANCE

Molenbeek

URBAN DANCE CARAVAN

It’s an immense movement of Urban Dances that crosses the city Center, from place to place, to bring us to the heart of the Theatre National ! 

With the Theatre National and the students in Scenography of the Ecole Nationale Supérieur d’Arts Visuel – La Cambre, we co-create since 2022 The Urban Dance Caravan. 

For the event, dancers from all over Belgium, from Casablanca in Marocco and from Goma in Congo, perform on ephemeral stages, like so many places on the street, from Place Fontainas to Place De Brouckère, to take the crowd to the big stage of the Theatre National for the Final Battle of the Detours Cyphers.

UPCOMING DATES

23/09/2023

23/09/2023

From the pedestrian area to the Place de la Bourse,
to the Place De Brouckère to the National Theater

FINAL BATTLE

Final battle at the Théâtre National

23/09/2023

19H < 22H

Théâtre National

WORK IN PROGRESS

Through Work in Progress, Detours Festival supports the professionalization of the urban choreographers of the FWB. 

During two evenings, young choreographers share the stage to present their works in progress to our Belgian and international partners and to the Detours audience, who all award prizes. Prior to the WIP evenings, each company can enjoy two weeks of residencies.

10 projects are selected each year, always based on quality, with a concern for the representation of genres, identities and cultures. You can also find African choreographers from Morocco and Congo at the WIP. The selected projects benefit from artistic support, tools for creation, development, production and communication assistance.

We are committed to bring together more artists and create new international collaborations.

We are proud to be able to highlight the work of urban artists, to support them in their project so that urban arts never stop renewing themselves and bubbling!

So, if you have a creation to present to us, click on this link to fill out the form!

UPCOMING DATES

CREATIVE EVENINGS

Each year, we dedicate one or more evenings to showcases for accomplished works.

The program mainly includes creations that won an award at the previous WIP. In 2022, the premiere of “La Cage” (Faraja Batumike) took place at the Raffinerie / Charleroi Danse. In 2023, the show JillZ by the young choreographer Casaoui Medhi Dahkan will be presented at the Raffinerie. This show won Charleroi-Danse prize in 2022.

UPCOMING DATES

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