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Kingston → Paris
Six families of Dancehall, taught through their history, their originators and their context. Come as you are — leave knowing why you move the way you do.
Kriptic
Di World Dance Master
Dancehall was not born on a stage. It was born in a yard in Kingston, on a sound system, between people who knew each other. Every step has a name, and most have an author — Bogle, Ravers Clavers, Ding Dong. Learn the step without the story and it fades in a month. Learn where it comes from and it stays in your body for good.
Where the step was born, who made it, what it answered to. The history is not a bonus — it is the lesson.
The bounce comes before everything. Without it, a step is a shape. With it, it is Dancehall.
Copying is a stage, not a destination. The goal is a body that speaks in its own voice, inside the culture.
The syllabus
Not levels. Not packages. The actual chronology of the dance, from the founding vocabulary to what is being created right now.
Late 1980s – mid 2000s
The founding vocabulary, and the man who named it.
Read moreMid-2000s – early 2010s
The crews take over, and the dance goes around the world.
Read more2010s – present
The vocabulary being written right now — and the discipline it takes to keep it.
Read moreEarly 1960s – today
The offbeat came first. Everything else was built on it.
Read moreFrom the sound-system yards of the 1950s to today's weekly street dances
The repertoire of the floor, not the stage — how a Jamaican session actually works.
Read moreLate 1970s – present
The hand language of the dance floor: how a crowd tells a selecta to run it back.
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DH-King & DH-Queen — 2th edition
Three days, two titles, one culture. Ten workshops, six battle categories, and the EU DH-King and DH-Queen titles at the end of it.
Class dates, textile drops and the moment competition registration opens. Nothing else.