<p><strong>Choreography and direction</strong>: Blanca Li  <br /><strong>Original music</strong>: Antoine Herv&eacute; <br />Additional music: &laquo;<em>Singing in the rain</em>&raquo; and &laquo;<em>Get happy</em>&raquo; (with the authorization of EMI France). Other additional music: Tao Gutierrez.  <br />Set: Bernard Michel and Elsa Ejchenrand - Lights: Didier Girard - Costumes: Laurent Mercier with the support of ADIDAS <br />Stage director: Gino Totaro - Sound technician: Antoine Imbert - Light technician: Mathieu Roy</p>
<p><strong>Dancers</strong>: Amin Benassa,  Malika Benjelloun, Andrea Bescond, Grichka Caruge, Karlos Da Silva,  Ahmed Karetti, Fran&ccedil;ois Lamargot, Esp&eacute;rance Mi&eacute;zi <br /><strong>Roller skaters</strong>: Lamine Fathi and Mohamed Sylla <br /><strong>Biker (BMX)</strong>: Alex Jumelin</p>
<p><strong>Production</strong>: Compagnie Blanca Li - <strong>Special thanks to</strong>:  Th&eacute;&acirc;tre de Suresnes (festival Suresnes Cit&eacute;s danse), Op&eacute;ra de Massy,  Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Mogador. Created with Caisse des D&eacute;p&ocirc;ts et Consignations,  re-created with "Conseil G&eacute;n&eacute;ral" of Essonne and DRAC Ile-de-France.</p>
<p>Initiated by the Festival Suresnes Cit&eacute;s Danse that  Olivier Meyer has been organizing for several years at the Th&eacute;&acirc;tre de  Suresnes, Macadam Macadam was received enthusiastically by the press and  the audience alike ever since its first creation in 1999. From then on,  the show has always been a great success, at the Festival d&rsquo;Avignon as  well as on tour, in France (Op&eacute;ra Comique), in Europe and in the United  States (New Haven Festival).</p>
<p>The world of Macadam Macadam, a stage turned into a  street and towered by a roller ramp, reflects the &ldquo;street culture&rdquo;  generation. Thanks to her multifaceted talent, her energetic temperament  and her insatiable curiosity, the Spanish choreographer Blanca Li knows  how to be sensitive with wit, and provocative with elegance. With 11  young virtuoso performers, she stages a successful combination of hip  hop and contemporary creation, both intelligent and subtle. Hip hop  rhythms meet music hall, and the choreographic pieces run from dancing  to roller-skating, from biking to acrobatics. The performers&rsquo;  spontaneity and sense of humor reach far beyond a simplified vision of  reality and overwhelm us by their mere pleasure to dance.</p>
<p><em>&laquo;For me, a live show is alive only when  it is preformed on stage. When one of my creations doesn&rsquo;t tour, it just  stops living. And after some time I start to miss it -just like an old  friend I haven&rsquo;t seen for a while. It&rsquo;s exactly what happened to me with  Macadam.  <br />But in order to put the show back to life, I had to give it a whole  new energy. I wanted to put in some new elements and take into account  the creative evolution of the street culture and its constantly renewed  means of expression. I put a new team together with some of the dancers  already present in 1999 and a few new comers. I also remodeled some  parts of the choreography, for the solos as well as for the collective  pieces. I didn&rsquo;t want to stress the individual virtuosity of the  performers, which are all excellent, as much as insist on the contrast  between the various styles and personalities.  <br />The 2006 re-creation was born from this encounter: it shows how  individuals from very different backgrounds can go beyond their own  frontiers, unite their energy and create a whole new alphabet together.&raquo;</em> B.L.</p>