Pixel: A Choreography by Mourad Merzouki [Blu-ray]

Pixel is a stunning contemporary dance performance for 11 dancers in a virtual and living visual environment. A work on illusion combining
energy and poetry, fiction and technical achievement, minimal music and hip-hop. It opens a dialogue between the synthetic world of digital projection and the real bodies of dancers.

Key Features:
Pixel is a contemporary cross-cultural dance extravaganza which will be popular among younger viewers, in particular.
It will appeal to fans of contemporary dance, urban and hip-hop moves, and elements of circus too.
Artistic director and choreographer Mourad Merzouki is famous for his dance group Compagnie Käfig.
The music was by French composer Armand Amar won a César award for his original soundtrack for the movie Le Concert.
Cutting edge designers Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne (“Adrien M & Claire B”) are on board the performance.

Mourad Merzouki, together with his Compagnie Käfig, has elevated hip-hop to the world stage. In doing so he has created a multicultural contemporary dance form which takes equal place with modern dance and other idioms of the genre. He has incorporated circus elements, martial arts, contemporary dance and puppetry, and brought in performers from Algeria, Brazil and Taiwan in order to develop his ideas. In the lead up to a recent UK tour the Financial Times called him ‘the ambassador of French hip-hop’ – a title which he truly merits.