Breakin' Convention - 10 year anniversary
Sadler’s Wells’ internationally celebrated three-day festival of hip hop dance theatre, Breakin’ Convention is back for its 10th year with a special anniversary programme celebrating the past decade of hip hop dance from around the world and the UK. This year the festival is running from Friday 3rd May to Monday 6th May at the Sadler's Wells' Theatre. It's been seen by around 90,000 people and has hosted over 480 dance companies from the UK and internationally.
Hosted and curated by Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Jonzi D it offers a great platform for young artists with youth companies being able to present work alongside more established acts. Ten companies have been commissioned to each create work. The ten companies which make up ‘UK Night’ are Avant Garde Dance, Bad Taste Cru, BirdGang, Boy Blue Entertainment, Company Decalage, Impact Dance, Jukebox, Plague, Unity and ZooNation.
Also part of its 10th anniversary celebration will feature a special performance by 10Tens, a new company formed by Breakin’ Convention made up of 10 ten year olds. The 10Tens performers were selected from auditions which took place in December and come from all corners of the UK. In addition, the programme features performance highlights from past festivals alongside some of the newest hip hop dance forms seen for the first time in the UK. As well as performances from the very best in hip hop dance theatre there is also a full programme of foyer events, workshops, DJs, freestyle sessions and live aerosol art.
Breakin’ Convention will tour overseas for the first time in 2013 for the anniversary, to the world famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC - the home of hip hop. A packed two day line up includes Rennie Harris Puremovement (USA), Project Soul (Korea), Jonzi D (UK), Boy Blue Entertainment (UK), Jane Sekonya (South Africa), Frank Ejara(Brazil) and Compagnie Sébastien Ramirez - formerly Clash 66 (France/Germany).
Sounds amazing!!!