The traditional event that the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto offers the city each year during the holiday season is back. On stage are the dancers of the Pockemon Crew, a leading company of the new international hip hop generation for a passionate tribute to the musical cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. Hip hop and black-and-white cinema: two arts born from the spontaneity of movement and from an irrepressible energy. With set design by Riyad Fghani, music by Alexis Roure "Psykot," lighting by Rudy Mueti and costumes by Nadine Chabannier, the virtuoso dancers burst into the black-and-white atmospheres of American musical comedies and transport us through the musical films that marked the Hollywood golden age, from Fred Astaire to Gene Kelly, from Vincent Minelli to Stanly Donen. The new show is also a tribute of the authors' hometown of Lyon, where the Lumière Brothers' cinema was born in 1895.

to Lyon in fact, in the late 1990s, the then director of the Dance Biennial noticed a group of dancers performing a jam under the arcades of the city'sOpera theater. Led from Riyad Fghani, in no time the Pockemon Crew made a name for themselves by winning hip hop contests around the world, becoming European champions several times. The company's activities have included eight theatrical works, of which the most performed and well-known is C'est la vie?, and several projects that shift the focus to the new generation of breakers, who are also involved in the shows.