Saïdo Lehlouh - Apaches

Saïdo Lehlouh and Johanna Faye founded Cie Black Sheep back in 2015, drawing together years of experience in the Parisian b-boy scene to inject underground energy into contemporary dance. Apaches is a culmination of their interest in b-boy culture, an ephemeral choreographic performance devised for between 10 and 40 dancers that exists as a spin-off of his 2018 performance Wild Cat, which highlighted the feline movements central to the French interpretation of the hip-hop style. The above documentation captures a special iteration of the performance, which took place in three separate historical Parisian theatres with three different groups of dancers, Le Bataclan, Folies Bergère and Casino De Paris. This tripel performance was recorded and broadcast live as part of the “REVIVRE LA SCÈNE” initiative, a celebration of the reopening of theaters in France following the national lockdown. Featuring a driving score of skittering electronics from multidisciplinary artist NSDOS, Apaches concentrates the unbridled