Synopsis

'The Chisel of Mataora' by Soufiane Karim

Go deep into tha Maori Myth of MATAORA who bring  the Tattoo“TA MOKO” in the living World from the other world...spirits and unliving natural strenght.

Biography

Dancer / Choreographer / Trainer
A young Frenchman of Moroccan origin, aged twenty-eight, Soufiane Karim had been dancing since his early childhood when, at sixteen, he discovered hiphop. The experience was life-changing and, as soon as he had finished studying communication, he launched straight into creating a life of dancing. He learned various dance techniques and styles in Paris and developed a keen interest in hip-hop culture. As he honed his skills, he set up the Boogalizzle group and together they discovered the techniques and magic of show business, winning several battles and contests, including choreography.

He met some good dancers teachers in Paris during his early hip-hop training-the-trainers sessions,developed a taste for skill transfer and teaching. Pursuing his love of travel, he continued his search, leaving Paris for New Caledonia to attend a three-part training programme organised by Mic Guillaumes (french contempory dancer/teacher/ pedagogic workshop artistic director )at the Noumea Centre de Développement Choréographique. Keen to share his travel and new friends, he put together his own solo production, “Sweet Hõm”. In the third unit of the training session, he participated as a trainers’ trainer, while continuing with his plans to develop dancing in New Caledonia and the Pacific. He travelled with several New Caledonian dancers to Vanuatu, Fiji and New Zealand to organise courses and shows. On his return, he decided to set up the Posuë Dance Company.

Now artistic director, dancer, choreagrafer, teacher of posuë company.
Director of projects about artistique and pedagogique exchanges in the Pacific (Vanuatu, Fidji, New Zealand, France) , "Dance studies and Maori culture" reasercher and "Dance in generale education" teacher at Auckland's University.

A New Caledonian Hip-Hop Dance School Company
Project Philosophy
The aim is to train and launch hip-hop dancers through and for choreographic productions based on the hip-hop genre and linked to Pacific culture. Training the dancers also requires developing their technical knowledge while maintaining and strengthening their social ties as young people in society.

It is our objective to get the youngsters to commit themselves professionally by exposing them to the realities of the hip-hop dancing career and of life as Artists in New Caledonia and the Pacific. It is also an opportunity for them to acquire the necessary skills to gain access to the current art market network. Moving from Action to Composing, Refining and Expressing Art