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!

It’s a huge 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.

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!