All occasions are good. As the 2024 Olympic Games loom in Paris, which will host acrobatic hip-hop style on the field for the first time, dance and sports are more common ground than ever. Surprisingly, on Saturday 10 June, at the Roland-Garros tournament, the women’s final offered a choreographic intro with eight irrepressible interpreters to the music of Bizet, played by the Divertimento orchestra under the direction of the conductor Zahia Ziouani.
This joyful ceremony was signed by Grichka Caruge, a figure of the hip-hop scene. “What a challenge to pay homage to tennis through choreographyhe exclaims. Evolving with rackets trying to divert the movement of the tennis player is fascinating. There is only a small step, finally, between dance and sport. » And jump, again the day after, for the Djokovic-Ruud men’s final, on Bolero by Ravel, with the ball boy troupe entering the arena.
This “small step” generates effervescent encounters. Launched on 1um June, the Cultural Olympiad, under the direction of Dominique Hervieu, heralds hundreds of events under the umbrella of art and sport. From June 23 to September 17, the Olympic Forms event, led by the Paris City Hall, offers 50 free shows while, from June 28 to July 2, the third edition of the Jogging festival, at the Carreau du Temple, hybrid dance with football , skating… “During the first edition, I had to collect the shows one by one, laughs Sandrina Martins, manager of the venue. This year I received a hundred files. Dance and sport are two poles that magnetize each other, creating a magnetic field on which new artistic forms can be born. »
If the dancer, who attends more and more gyms, is often considered an athlete and the sportsman is sometimes compared to a dancer with electric legs, it is because they have many points in common. In the rehearsal room, in the stadium or on the tatami, the bodies face the same challenges of technical learning, virtuosity, resilience… “A large number of constraints are identical, including training difficultysays sociologist Patrick Mignon, head of the sociology laboratory at the National Institute of Sports and Physical Education, from 1998 to 2015. Among the differences, the objective of the performance changes. In sport it is the result to be achieved; in the show, it serves its purpose. After all, a norm dictates the first, while it is the transgression that operates in the second. » As for competition and excellence, heightened in both, they do not end the same way. “One side wins or loses; instead the artistic content prevails”, Adds.
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