The par Terre / Anne Nguyen Dance Company and Didier Boko’s association Fondament’all are collaborating on a large-scale artistic project, the Battle of battles, which aims at coaching the students of one or several secondary schools to organize their own dance battle.

During several months, the students will prepare themselves through workshops divided in two axes: one on dance, where they will practice hip-hop or afro dance and prepare for the battle by working on stage presence and self-assertion, and the second on methodology, where they will be introduced to communication, greeting the public and logistics. In the course of the project, they will have the opportunity to see in situ performances at their school by the dancers coaching them and to attend shows from the par Terre Dance Company, whose artistic and technical teams they will be able to meet. They will themselves perform in situ inside their own schools and organize a pre-battle there. The project will culminate in the Battle of battles, an event co-organized by the different classes participating, who will battle each other in front of their friends, families and students of the other classes invited.

The battle of battles project develops group cohesion and individual skills through the practice of dance and the preparation of an event involving the students in all stages of the project, thus reinforcing their personal responsibility and their potential to act onto the world.

This project was realized:

• from September 2021 to June 2022 as part of an In Situ residency instigated by the department of Seine-Saint-Denis (93), with 3 classes of 6^th and 5^th grade students from Collège La Courtille in Saint-Denis (93), a Paris suburb. It was centered around Heracles on his head, of which several weeks of rehearsals took place inside the school, and the shows Underdogs and Hip-Hop Nakupenda.
• from January to April 2023 with La Ferme du Buisson, Scène nationale de Marne-la-Vallée, as part of the project “Beaux Quartiers” with the support of ministère chargé de la Ville, with two classes of 4th grade students from secondary school Le Luzard in Noisiel and two classes of 3^rd grade students from secondary school Louis Aragon in Torcy (77), in the Paris suburbs. It was centered around the show Matière(s) première(s).