Here the dates of all the spots for the pre selections of the meating 2008!

Italia / Jesolo: 03 January 2008 info@cruisin.it

Swiss / Geneva: 05 January 2008 seb1geneva@hotmail.com)

 

Japan/ Tokyo: 11 January 2008 takeo@aasd.jp

Germany/ Düsseldorf:26 January 2008 takao@t-online.de

Finland/ Helsinky: 27 January 2008 jouni.janatuinen@trailwind.fi

Sweden/Stockholm: 1, 2 February 2008 martin@streetstar.se

Czech Republic/Prague: 3 February 2008 xzvam01@vse.cz and www.justedebout.cz

France/Lille: 9 February 2008 lil-romu@hotmail.fr

UK/ London: CANCELLED but there will be workshops with the judges pannel the 10 and 11 of February 2008 guy.weladji@wanadoo.fr

France/ Saint Brieuc: 16 February 2008 Pascal@juste-debout.com

France/ Paris Workshop 25 to 29 February 2008 - REGISTRATION LIST OPEN - send an email to : bruce@juste-debout.com

Preliminary day: The March 1st 2008 REGISTRATION OPEN ON : www.juste-debout.com (only for March, 1st, in Paris)

D Day “Juste debout” final in Paris the March 2nd

Contact: bruce@juste-debout.com

- All the spot will have workshop to, if you are interested feel free to contact the organizers!

- If you want to registrar in one of the spot of preselection, contat directly the organizer!!

- For any details and questions, thanks to send directly an email to bruce@juste-debout.com (not on myspace)

For the 2008 edition, the judges and teachers of the workshop will be:

House: Rabah ( O trip house) from France.

Locking: Risa (Bitter Box Sisters) from Japan.

Hip Hop: Stretch (Elite force) NY.

Popping: (And for the first time In the JD, a member of Rocksteady Crew and Electric boogaloos), Mr Wiggles !!! From LA/Las vegas www.mrwiggles.biz., www.divinerhythmproductions.com

THE IDEA

Hip Hop dance has a different impact on people.
Until then, there was no event presenting the various styles of dance: Popping, Locking, Hip hop new style and House dance…
That's why, in 2001, Bruce YKANJI, lover of the dance for a long time, and the MPT Victor Jara, led in that time by Pascal Gilbert, decided to organize a journey of perfection in New York.
The idea was to reward 5 better students of classes. The classes were taught by three great US dancers and choreographers: Brian Green, Shannon Mabra et Jazzy J.
In 2002,the organizers did it again, but this time, by making the Americans come in France. The purpose was not only to touch more people, but to allow people who couldn't afford move to US to see great names of Hip Hop dance and by that way, to develop Hip hop dance in France. “Juste debout” was born.

What is exactly the “Juste debout”?

The “Juste debout ” divides in two:
On one hand, the training, supervised by the foreign speakers (or judges) and on the other hand, the meeting which is judged by the same speakers.
–The training takes place over a week.
It's the occasion for Bruce YKANJI,the MPT Victor Jara and the social center Georges Brassens to collect some 150 young people coming from all the social classes of France and moreover.

The meeting or “Battle”, extends over a day during which more than 80 dancers are going to be in confrontation, in a cool spirit (it's for that reason that the organizers prefer the term “meeting” to that of ” battle “), in front of a jury of recognized professionals of the whole world.
A good reason for thedancers to give the best of themselves.
“Juste debout ” is the result of many years of hard work and not, as many could think, one of these fashionable events.

This is not a contest, a competition: It's the essence of Hip Hop dance!