Hip Baroque Choc
Meeting between young people and baroque music
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 Deejaying, Rap, Breakdancing, Beatboxing and Graffiti.
7 vocational high schools in the Paris region are involved:
- Gustave Eiffel vocational school in Varennes-sur-Seine
- Jean Moulin vocational school Vincennes
- Louis Girard vocational school in Malakoff
- Auguste Blanqui comprehensive school in Saint-Ouen
- Adrienne Bolland vocational school in Poissy
- EREA Dumas in Paris
- Paris University Club (PUC)
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
4 CM2 classes in Paris :
- Brèche-aux-loups primary schools
- Porte de Brancion primary schools
- Rouelle primary schools
- Championnet primary schools
The Hip Baroque Choc is an inclusive project that also brings together allophone pupils from UPE2A 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.
Olympics !
In 2022, 2023 and 2024, the Hip Baroque Choc has joins the Cultural Olympiad of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024. The Concert de la Loge regains its historic adjective and embraces the Olympic values.
The history of the Games, often accompanied by cultural competitions in their first decades of the 20th century, is honored by exploring, through workshops and staging, the values of respect, solidarity and surpassing oneself, common to athletes, musicians and dancers.
The orchestra is launching its first “Hip Baroque Olympics” by bringing to a higher level the meeting between students from the different establishments benefiting from the project, and between the different artistic activities practiced in each class.
The show
Each season, students prepare a show throughout the year, which is presented in public and brings together students and artists on stage, this year, on June, 2025 in Paris.
On this occasion, the greatest works of baroque music are danced, sung and reinterpreted in a show combining hip-hop dance, singing, percussion, writing, theater, declamation and applied arts.
This year, the program will feature pieces by Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Philippe Rameau and André Campra, and will focus particularly on the text of the Olimpiade by the famous librettist Metastasio.
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
Baroque 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.
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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