Lyon: Kadia Faraux, a choreographer engaged in the footsteps of Princess Yennenga for the 2021 dance Biennale parade

Kadia Faraux is a choreographer from Lyon, she has been running a company of the same name since 1994. Her influences come mainly from the Hip-Hop aesthetic and are fed in a hybrid way: African, Latin, traditional, Afro-jazz dances, music halls, American musicals… She confesses also be very inspired by Mediterranean culture.

Kadia Faraux and Princess Yennenga: why Yennenga?
She’s a princess but not sleeping beauty! This is a strong princess, a warrior in African legend who went to defend her people and who fought for freedom, an icon And “YENNEGA”: this is the title of her choreography that she is preparing for the parade of the Dance Biennale which will take place in Lyon on May 30, 2021 with 250 participants.

Between Lyon and Ouaga: everyone will parade …
It was natural that I traveled to Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso, in October 2019 for the performance of the Biennale de la Danse parade. I rediscovered my African roots and met a large number of artists, singers, dancers and musicians who fueled my creative work. Some of them will be present in Lyon for the parade and master-classes (April and May 2021) … if the Covid-19 allows us.

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A parade that will go to Africa?
After the parade in France, we will try, if the means allow us, to transpose it to Ouagadougou as part of their street festival the following year. Thus we will achieve our objectives of exchanges and sharing so that this adventure, part of the Africa 2020 operation, initiated by the French State, finds a culmination through a real work of artistic complementarity and a respective enhancement of our cultures.

Kadia Faraux, urban dances, hip-hop, afro dance and the Krump, what is it?
The Krump is a dance born in the 2000s, in the heart of the poor neighborhoods of Los Angeles. This dance, non-violent despite its aggressive appearance because of the movements performed very quickly, the rage or anger that can sometimes be read on the faces of the Krump dancers called the Krumpers, is meant to be a dance representing life and all its enjoyment. Indeed, there is no physical conflict between the dancers.