By working with Ukrainian dancers accustomed to hip-hop battles, Brahim Bouchelaghem has created a work that combines the energy of improvisation with the rigour and poetry of choreography.

Blending the violence of war with movements from Syrian dances, Mithkail Alzghair uses dance to tell a tale of exile – his own and that of his fellow countrymen.

With strength and energy, Unwanted by Dorothée Munyaneza recounts the trauma of wartime rape. The young Rwandan artist gives a voice to women and children who are often silenced.

With The Roots, a show created for his company Accrorap, Kader Attou brings his own history of hip-hop to the stage, made up of cultural exchanges, childhood memories and demanding technique.

In Pixel, a piece created by Mourad Merzouki for his company Käfig, video becomes a dancer in its own right. The boundaries between bodies and projections blur to create a futuristic world.