Hip Baroque Choc
For vocational high schools
Launched in 2016, the Hip Baroque Choc educational project offers young people attending vocational secondary schools the chance to take part in practical artistic workshops throughout the year and to take part in a creation combining baroque music, hip-hop dance, declamation, percussion, choral singing and applied arts, with professional artists.
For its ninth edition, Hip Baroque Choc will have three distinct strands : a project in Île-de-France with secondary school students, a project in Hauts-de-France and the first edition of a junior Hip Baroque Choc with elementary schools.
In 2025, Hip Baroque Choc will celebrate the different disciplines of hip-hop, transposing them into a baroque aesthetic by reinterpreting Djing, Rap, Breakdancing, Beatboxing and Graffiti.
7 vocational high schools in the Paris region are involved :
- Gustave Eiffel vocational school in Varennes-sur-Seine
- Maximilien-Vox public and technological high school in Paris
- Louis Girard vocational school in Malakoff
- Auguste Blanqui comprehensive school in Saint-Ouen
- Adrienne Bolland vocational school in Poissy
- EREA Dumas in Paris
- Jacques Prévert vocational highschool in Combs-la-ville
3 vocational high schools in Hauts-de-France are involved :
- Julie Daubié vocational school in Laon
- Le Nain secondary school in Laon
- Lycée I.&F. Joliot-Curie high school in Hirson
The Hip Baroque Choc show
The 9th edition of the Hip Baroque Choc show will take place on 23 May at 7:30pm at the Théâtre de la Concorde in Paris.
The show will bring together 200 young people from 7 vocational secondary schools in the Paris region, along with around 20 artists, Julien Chauvin and the musicians from the Concert de la loge, for a grand spectacle based on the five disciplines For several months, the students have been preparing a show that will feature them in a number of disciplines: baroque music, hip-hop dance, percussion, writing, declamation, applied arts and graffiti.
2024/2025
For primary schools
The Hip Baroque Choc Junior will celebrate Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by presenting them in an immersive and participatory dimension.
The work is structured around a narrative and poetic theme that gives schoolchildren the chance to “sound” or “mime” the descriptive elements of the score by illustrating the winds, birds, insects, springs, fire, ice or rain musically or physically, using percussion or dance.
Pupils will be invited to construct sound and choreographic gestures to illustrate the seasons at the same time as Julien Chauvin and the musicians of the Concert de la Loge perform them.
4 CM2 classes in Paris :
- Brèche-aux-loups primary school
- Porte de Brancion primary school
- Rouelle primary school
- Championnet primary school
The Hip Baroque Choc Junior show
The 1st edition of the Hip Baroque Choc Junior show
will take place this coming 10 June at 7:30 pm at the Théâtre de la Concorde in Paris.
This presentation will bring together 90 CM1/CM2 schoolchildren alongside Julien Chauvin and the musicians of the Concert de la Loge, in a stage creation based on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with a unique immersive and participatory dimension.
Working with their teachers, City of Paris instructors and artists from the Concert de la Loge, the pupils are preparing a show that will feature them in a number of disciplines: hip-hop dance, percussion, applied arts and singing.
Inclusion
The Hip Baroque Choc is an inclusive project that also brings together allophone pupils from UPE2A schools in primary schools and high schools, as well as young people with disabilities from ULIS or special schools (EREA).
The Hip Baroque Choc is a real encounter between very different social and artistic worlds. It encourages young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to develop their potential and strengthen their ambitions. The project is essentially focused on vocational courses, without any artistic education.
THE HIP BAROQUE CHOC IN PRACTICE
The Workshops
Throughout the year, between 200 and 300 hours of artistic workshops are offered to students during school time, led by professional artists.
HIP-HOP DANCE
Hip-hop dance and choreography to baroque music.
SINGING, DECLARATION, THEATER
From lyrical singing to slam, an introduction to voice, rhythm and stage.
PERCUSSIONS
LBaroque percussion and students’ professional tools at the service of music.
APPLIED ARTS
Creation of sets, costumes and accessories inspired by hip-hop and sports themes.
The micro-chocs
In addition to working throughout the school year with classes participating in the Hip Baroque Choc show, the Concert de la Loge also offers one-off actions through “micro-choc” workshops.
These sessions are led by a quartet of classical musicians who are accompanied by a hip-hop dancer and/or a percussionist and their content is adjusted according to their duration, from 20 to 50 minutes.
During a lesson or part of a lesson, some of the greatest hits of baroque music are performed by the musicians before the entry of a hip-hop dancer. This demonstrative part continues with an exchange of questions, as well as participatory games of rhythms and dances which draw the students into a fun sensory experience around this music.
These micro-shocks can be offered to all educational establishments, adapted to younger audiences.
Alongside all these workshops, the Concert de la Loge offers a cultural journey to students through guided tours of the Louvre Museum and invitations and outings for concerts and dance shows.
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