During this transmission, young dancers from The Place in London are invited to join the world of Flowers crack concrete.

The origins

Since 2018, Flowers crack concrete has been a fully-fledged participatory project. The CCNR company transmits it to other groups, of all ages and backgrounds, practicing or not practicing dance. Rewritten in 2021 and 2022 for the 55 preparatory and DNSPD contemporary dancers at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse (CNSMD) in Paris, Flowers crack concrete has become Bugger.

Intentions

Flowers crack concrete is an invitation to reach out into the unknown, to step outside ourselves to find the other, to cross the boundaries that separate us. For dance is above all an encounter.

“My aim is to invent a new folklore with people, a dance that brings them together and reflects their individuality. We’ve created a language of movement that lets you immediately feel the power of unison. The group, constantly transformed, is created by propagation in real time, while at the same time each individual emerges from the whole with his or her own originality. Flowers crack concrete reveals our ability to cross the lines that seem imposed on us, and to invent a shared space that includes the singularities of each individual.” — Yuval Pick