'Dance of the Games' to debut at Paris Olympics: A look at Mourad Merzouki’s hip-hop celebration

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Set to debut at the Trocadéro Champions Park on 5 August, Merzouki’s 'Dance of the Games' will showcase a blend of martial arts, circus, and live arts, in an ode to hip-hop.

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00:00To see that hip-hop continues today in battles, at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is a

00:26great recognition.

00:27And I believe that this recognition, we owe it to these 30 years that we have spent,

00:32all of us, to fight, to hang on, to believe in our dream, so that this dance can have

00:40a place like any other dance in the choreographic landscape.

00:44We will be in a site that will be extremely important, visible, so the symbolism is strong.

01:02It is an artistic recognition, also a societal recognition, since we will have a youth,

01:11the French youth from the popular neighborhoods, dancing at the heart of the city of Paris.

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