With their installation, Nouvelle Pangée, hosting an "all styles" dance battle for Battle Piece - Part II, Nicolas Faubert and Gabriel Moraes Aquino intend to cross two worlds that do not always mix: contemporary art and popular culture dance movements (Hip-Hop, Rap, Breakdance, Jam, Djing, Graffiti, etc.).

They wish, they say, “to bring a valorizing glance on a triumphant and multicultural youth”.

This work, both thought as heritage and ritual, provokes a decompartmentalization through an immersive experience. This work, both thought as heritage and ritual, provokes a decompartmentalization through an immersive experience.

The Nouvelle Pangée is materialized here by this circular ecosystem, a place of meeting and expression of different bodies, origins and beliefs that coexist. In the middle of the arena, encircled by sculptures taking the form of trophies, the eight dancers express themselves freely, and evolve in a "safe space". They dialogue with the works of the exhibition, with the public, real actor, and with themselves. The strength of the dancers and the crowd resonates even in the artifacts that make up the installation, to the point of giving them life. The trophies are a tribute to this duality without violence, to this competition where one triumphs, in the end, only over oneself

During Garage Band, Hatch Gallery hosted a "1vs1 all styles" dance battle. This project, initiated by Nicolas Faubert and Gabriel Moraes Aquino, is in partnership with the non-profit organization Heart Street. The battle is made of eight dancers (Nara, Dani, Viola, Omega, FEEJ; Quan Ten, Nash-Kyu and Sosa), two judges (Oomoo and Rachid Zk Flash), a DJ (DJ Sakeul), a speaker (Kryzastyle), a coordinator (Cashmire) and a host (Gabi).

The performers and dancers faced each other, round after round, through figures on the ground (breakdance, freeze, footwork...) and standing (toprock, waacking, popping, krump...) in a circular installation created for the occasion. The public voted online and then by applause for the finalists and the winner was announced, Quan Ten.

The battle is designed to represent, in a non-exhaustive way, the disciplines that make up the Hip-Hop culture, in order to offer an inclusive performance to neophytes as well as to the most refined connoisseurs.