Breakin’ Convention 2024 Artists
Boy Blue (UK) - Archives Volume 1
Performing Sunday 5 May
Expect an explosive and tightly in-sync mass performance from east London’s leading dance crew.
Cie Kilaï (FRANCE) - Raw
Performing Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 May in the Lilian Baylis Studio
Raw is an interactive one-on-one show with the audience, a portrait of four dancers recounting their world, the game, its violence and ironic beauty, devoid of utopia but charged with hope.
Company DHW (UK) - p = F/A
Performing Sunday 5 May
a thought-provoking dance piece that combines choreography, storytelling, and thematic exploration to examine the human condition and society's impact on individual identity and self-worth.
CREATE4 (NETHERLANDS ) - THE HEREDITARY
Performing Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 May
Two young black men from different sides of the world explore the long- ingrained, toxic masculinity that is passed on generation to generation, sometimes actively by a father who is present, and the other times through the absence of a father figure. In a physical conversation blend with hip hop dance, they share and learned from their differences and similarities
Ekleido (UK ) - Splice
Performing Saturday 4 May
Splice is an exploration of connection and architecture between two bodies as they configure themselves between restriction and possibility, solving a physical puzzle. Like tangled ropes or headphones that splice themselves like magic without you watching, Ekleido explore how that mystery occurs as well as how different textures and elasticities of the ropes/wires would act whilst intertwined and how that translates to human limbs.
Femme Fatale (USA) - Unbounded
Performing Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 May
The story of three women of different cultural backgrounds moving to America to pursue their dreams. They share their experience in the street dance scene, touching on subjects such as gender inequality, self-discovery as women and the ongoing challenges of being an artist.
GSB (UK ) - Title: GSB
Performing Saturday 4 May
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.” Founded in 2017, GSB, also known as Gully South Block, are a South London based Krump collective, whose aim is to give an intimate insight into their individual lifestyles and environments.
Jamal Sterrett (UK) - High Spectra
Performing Saturday 4 May
Surreal realities exist when your inner world contains Aspergers. Spectra, is short for spectrum, an ideology that all life exists, on frequencies personalised to you. Whether a frequency is higher or lower, depends on the Individual. Dance exists within spectra. It can be used to decipher movement that resonates most with your inner being.
Jinjo Crew (SOUTH KOREA)
Performing Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 May
Old and new members of the grand slam winners Jinjo Crew re-interpret some of the performances that cemented them as world champions.
Sasha Mahfouz Shadid (UK)
Performing Sunday 5 May
A love letter to the values inspired by his Palestinian father, full of harsh realities through a British Palestinian lens, performed by one body personifying an interpretation of characters from The Wizard of Oz to reflect the inner unity and outer isolation.
ShaolinOrShao (UK) MP3+Movement Init
Performing Saturday 4 May
“£2 Chicken and chips and BBQ dip from Morley’s… Bad boy meal
This piece is about grime culture, safe”
Sons of Wind (FRANCE) - Bounce
Performing Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 May
With Bounce, Sons of Wind affirm their strong connection to hip hop freestyle and reflect on how the bounce inspires and nourishes the body.
TRAPLORD (UK)
Performing Saturday 4 May
From Ivan Michael Blackstock, a new chapter of the TRAPLORD universe premieres at Breakin’ Convention.
When Time Was New (UK) - Psyche
Performing Sunday 5 May
Psyche is a hip hop dance theatre show that uses dance as a tool to spread an important message about male mental health with an all-star line-up of UK dancers.