La Fougue

Associate artist

La Fougue © Streetandhumans

2025/2027

As part of the Associate artist program

The crew

Based in Lyon, La Fougue is a collective of artists bringing together various disciplines: dance, music, DJing, photography, video, and fashion. Driven by an energy deeply rooted in hip-hop culture, the collective aims to create authentic moments of life, where artists and audiences meet, experiment, and co-create. Each project thus becomes a field of collective exploration, fueled by shared energy and the desire to break down barriers between disciplines.
Guided by a single watchword, authenticity, La Fougue imagines events where creativity and sharing take precedence.
Active on the Lyon art scene, it has made a name for itself through a variety of formats: Jam XXL at Les Nuits de Fourvière, annual battles at Le Bizarre! in Vénissieux, and collaborative stage works such as Slam Tour for the Lyon Dance Biennale. These experiences, among many others, reflect the collective’s desire to bring hip-hop culture to life in all its diversity.
At the heart of this dynamic, the founding members, who come from a variety of backgrounds, combine dance, DJing, visual creation, and event organization, embodying the multidisciplinary approach and collective spirit that are La Fougue’s strengths. Together, they champion a shared vision: to promote hip-hop culture and bring audiences together around authentic, creative, and lively experiences.

Creations & repertoire

SLAM TOUR (2025)

In the context of a concert, “slam” refers to a practice in the pit, where members of the audience lift a person up and pass them from hand to hand. This creates collective energy and provokes interaction between the audience and the artists, a way of celebrating music by adding a physical dimension to the concert experience. It is this experience that the Compagnie Relevant and the La Fougue collective wanted to explore choreographically. With incredible hip-hop energy mixed with various aesthetic influences, the two Lyon-based artist collectives have surrounded themselves with young dancers from the ID and Désoblique training programs to imagine a unique large-scale performance.

CASTING

Creation & choreography: CIE RELEVANT with Marwan Kadded, Freddy Madodé, Jerôme Oussou, David Walther, Karym Zoubert et LA FOUGUE with Indy Belmounes, Brian Kpadja, Léo Tardieu, Joël Sossavi, Aisi Zhou
Creation & live music: Wilfrid Haberey

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Agenda 2025/26

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