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 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
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 at the Théâtre National
23/09/2023
19H < 22H
Théâtre National
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
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.