ABOUT MICKAEL
French choreographer Mickael AKA Marso is well known as a hip-hop artist, and has trained in circus skills, theatre and Capoeira. In 2000 he was employed at the Millenium Dome, performing on stilts, bungee and trapeze, and he has also performed at the Commonwealth Games and at The Place. In 2004 he started his own professional dance company Company Decalage. As an independent choreographer he was worked diversely with The Bolshoi Ballet/Theatre (2007) and with hip-hop theatre artists. An acclaimed teacher and established Bboy, Marso holds a number of weekly Bboy classes in London and Birmingham and teaches international workshops through his Urban Dance Agency Bboys Attic.

ABOUT THE WORK
Marso's piece for five dancers is inspired by the effect of music on people in the hip hop culture and how it translates in the media and in everyday lives. He defines the breaking point as the point at which one loses oneself to intuition and impulse.  From the critical moment of personal stress to the bboy throwing down to the break in the music, the breaking point is the instinctive human response to emotion, music, religion and life.

WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HIM
In 2007, Marso participated in The Place's Choredrome and performed in Touchwood.  Most recently, he was seen at Sadler's Wells at Breaking Convention 08. 

WHERE YOU CAN SEE HIM NEXT
Marso and dancer Navala Chaudhari have been selected to compete in the semi finals of the Burgos International Choreography Competition in Spain on 29 July and will also perform as part of the Festival de los Castillos in Valderrobres, Spain on 2 August.  Marso and members of Company Decalage are leading Contemporary with Breaking classes for The Place's Summer Intensives course, 18 - 22 August.