Dress Code

After becoming a huge fan of breakdance, Julien Carlier trained in hip hop in Brussels and Paris while studying for a masters in physiotherapy.
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, his early experiences on stage evolved towards projects that were devised and created collectively. The varied path he has taken inspires his work as a creator, in which the technical skill of the hip-hop vocabulary is combined with sensitive listening.
And so in Dress Code he follows the journeys of five performers whom he puts on display to the audience first, like a microcosm under the magnifying glass. Blending challenges and an exercise of utmost sincerity, this introduction to the subject head on opens up into a performance that is constructed like a ritual, where the individuals and their experiences, intimacy and virtuosity, powers and flaws, the singularity of people and the mechanics of the group all start to resonate.