Wild Cat

A city in the night? Delayed trains clatter past. Supple movements of a body break through the darkness. A human being? An animal? More bodies join in. They move about silently, watching each other, nuzzling around the floor. In Wild Cat, Saïdo Lehlouh sheds light on one of HipHop’s foundational styles. The technical and aesthetic reappropriation by the French choreographer is reminiscent of the precise, supple, and delicate way cats move, between a maximum of attention and simultaneous relaxation. Wild Cat opens a space for individual expression and improvisation in which the usual organisational elements of time and space, as well as gravitation, appear to be suspended. On stage, Wild Cat unfolds with a visual and vibrant poetic of living dance, creating the encounter of dancers and audience in a moment of absolute presence.

During the mid-Nineties, the Paris b-boying scene astounded with their new vision of breaking. Wild Cat, Saïdo Lehlouh’s first choreography, was created in 2018, putting this style front and centre, a style defined by its fluidity and its cat-like finesse. Saïdo Lehlouh traces his roots to street dance, dancing with the Bad Trip Crew. Those experiences still inform his choreographic work that plays with introspection and submission to gravitation, inserting moments of explosive power.

Duration: 50 min.
Attention: Use of loud music

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