Originally from Paris, from the south of France and Portugal, the dancers specialize in hip-hop and house dance. They are professional dancers working in companies, teaching and carrying out personal art projects. What unites them at Cergy is their work around learning and transmitting hip-hop culture. How to convey the different dance styles in hip-hop culture, while still keeping the essence, the spontaneity and above all, a social dance.
Come to Hue Festival 2024, they will present a work titled "Flow", hoping to bring a flow of hip hop culture. Through the work, the physical and sensory movements in the dances, the dancers want to convey, along with music and the surrounding atmosphere, the flows between inside and outside, to transmit and give the audiences the flow of hip hop culture.
Artist Information:
Wanda Attia
A dancer movitated by a deep gratitude towards life, she finds inspiration for her art in everyday moments. Her curiosity extends to everything that connects: music, rhythm and the values of hip-hop culture, such as meeting and sharing.
With passion, she nurtured her style through years of experiences and trips made up of exchanges, especially in Senegal and New York.
As a choreographer and teacher, she demonstrates a sincere desire to introduce to diverse audiences the benefits she experiences in her dance, such as self-expression, release and pleasure.
Théotim Lestra Di Bernardo
A dancer from the south-east of France, he developed his practice in a village where Hip-Hop culture was absent, greatly fueling his desire to later meet it. With a tenacious will and diligent work then guided him to the Paris region. During his years of study at the Passeur Culturel training course in Cergy, he discovered among the transmission media which seemed infinite to him, a whole field of creation, hitherto unsuspected. He therefore maintains a deep desire to explore his different channels.
Today his work focuses as much on freestyle Hip-Hop dance, as a choreographer and performing dancer, as on musical creation, as a beatmaker, particularly for dance shows.
Advocating unity between body and mind, his approach goes against the tide of an era that pushes us to dissociate them. In his work, this young artist uses sensation to create form.
Mariana Luz
At the age of 21, She came to Paris from Portugal to complete training in hip-hop dance and academic dance (Flow Dance Academy and International Dance Academy), now Mariana is a dancer and teacher specializing in Hip Hop and House.
Currently, she teaches at the Cergy Dance Training Center and at the Ambassadeur d'Espérance school. She is also a dancer and performer for the companies MVMTK, Clouds and Lontra Production with the show “Memoriam”. Since September 2023, she has been reprising her role for the Paradox-Sal Company on the show “Queen Blood”.
Laura Vechot
Laura grew up immersed in music, particularly jazz and Latin American music. She started with taking modern jazz dance class, then switched to hip-hop and house. She defines herself as a “clubber” and enjoys participating in parties and celebrations where spontaneous dancing breaks out, getting inspiration from her trips to New York, Senegal and Cuba. From 2021 to 2024, she has attended the “Cultural Passeurs en danses hip-hop” training at the dance training center (CFD) in Cergy, as well as two training courses including the Acogny technique and traditional African dances at the international center for traditional and contemporary African dance in Senegal. Currently, she organizes dance movement therapy sessions for various audiences including children and the disabled. She has recently joined a project of the Tanz der Kulturen company based in Hamburg, Germany, for the work revolving around Yoruba mythology and ritual dances will be performed in the summer of 2024.