Freestyle, the unmissable street culture festival is back at La Villette! Dance, street-art, fashion, music, sport... the free street culture festival is back for a new edition, always more incredible, from May 27th to 28th 2023. Don't miss it!
A whole weekend dedicated to street culture in all its forms, for a total immersion in urban art. It's the unmissable event that we find at La Villette, for an eighth edition, on May 27 and 28, 2023. The free Freestyle festival is back, for our greatest pleasure!
This year, the Freestyle festival will take place outdoors, in the space of the Périphérique, between the Kilomètre25 and the Jardin21. An outdoor event, to enjoy the freedom that these wide open spaces offer us, and to have fun under this beautiful June sun. Performances, workshops, demonstrations and parties await us during these three memorable days.
On the program? Dance, roller dance, street-art, basketball, fashion shows, DJ sets, artistic battles and many activities open to all. In short, a great popular festival, that we would not miss under any pretext! Food trucks and an open fashion market are present every day, to allow us to enjoy this festival.
Discover the program of this festival in detail:
Saturday May 27th
HIP-HOP SECTIONS (dance and fashion) From 3pm to 4:30pm - Main Stage / Le Périphérique Make way for the youth! The hip-hop sections of the Turgot (Paris, 3rd arrondissement) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Sarcelles) high schools, and the André Citroën (Paris, 15th arrondissement), Garcia Lorca (St Denis) and Colette Besson (Paris, 20th arrondissement) middle schools will perform. On their side, the students of the professional high school Camille Claudel (Vitry-sur-Seine) present a fashion show danced on the theme of the disco!
BASKET-BALL From 3pm to 7pm - Alcove 2 / Le Périphérique 3pm-4pm: Initiation and discovery of 3x3 with Diarr'Academy (former player of the French national team) 16h-16h30 : Dunk demo 17h-19h : 3x3 women tournament with the Paris Lady Basket (Paris 20th district)
SKATEBOARD From 3pm to 7pm - Esplanade / Le Périphérique 3pm-5pm : Initiations for children and adults (on registration www.lavillette.com) 17h-19h : Demo, contest and out session with Hugo Corbin, César Dubroca, Nozbone and Realaxe
Creative workshops From 3pm to 7pm - In front of the Espace Périphérique tent Participative magic fresco with DISEK Customization workshop with SANER Stencils workshop with CAROL B
BRAY From 3pm to 8pm - Wall of the Big Stage in live / Le Périphérique Portuguese graffiti artist, Helio Bray is, with nearly 500K followers on instagram, one of the big stars of the sector. His extraordinary dexterity has made him the guest of honor at numerous conventions in Europe and the United States.
Triptychs in live From 3pm to 8pm - Esplanade / Le Périphérique
Italian painter and tattoo artist, Rame13 likes illustrative graphics. With spray or brush, she paints a chimerical universe, made of vanities, sailors, animals and protected species.
LE MEC BLASÉ : French graffiti artist, Le Mec Blasé has been sketching since the end of the 90's scenes from his Parisian suburb. In an intoxicating hip-hop atmosphere, he stages characters of B-boys and B-girls with a mutinous look.
The Battle: from 5pm to 9pm and The Rave from 10pm to 2am Main Stage / The Peripheral
MY SUMMER FREQUENCY (dance and music) International event of dance and electro music led by Achraf Bouzefour aka HFLOW, My Summer Frequency offers two highlights: a 3x3 battle with sixteen teams from Japan, Ukraine, Netherlands, Morocco, Russia, Israel and France. Then, a rave with Molécule, Lake Haze and Frequency DJs Mariejuana, Kevin Table and Nikit.
Focus battle - CHIHO IS ELECTRO Ambassador of electro in Japan, Chiho Yokoyama is a dancer and choreographer. She participates in the battle My Summer Frequency with Aika Bambam and Hayabusa.
Focus rave. From 11pm - DJ Set LAKE HAZE Taking his pseudonym from a track by the mythical duo Drexciya from Detroit, the Portuguese Gonçalo Salgado composes a music at the crossroads of techno, electro and acid.
Focus rave - MOLECULE. From midnight - DJ Set French electronic musician, Romain de la Haye aka Molécule is an explorer of sounds. Adept of oceanic fields recording, his expeditions led him from Greenland to the lighthouse of Tévennec through the beaches of surfers in Portugal which inspired his EP Nazaré (Ed Banger).
VILLETTE FREESTYLE CONTEST From 11am to 6pm - Jardin des Voltiges Street Workout competition in Battle format The Villette Freestyle Contest launches its 1st edition! Around the sport bars, about thirty athletes, men and women from France and Europe, will demonstrate their strength and agility. 11am - 1pm : Warm up / Discovery workshop / Friendly meeting 2pm - 6pm : Battle 1vs1 / Prize giving
SKATEBOARD From 3pm to 7pm - Esplanade / Le Périphérique 15h-17h : Initiations for children and adults (on registration www.lavillette.com) 17h-19h : Demo, contest and out session with Hugo Corbin, César Dubroca, Nozbone and Realaxe
Creative workshops From 3pm to 7pm - In front of the Espace Périphérique tent Participative magic fresco with DISEK Customization workshop with SANER Stencils workshop with CAROL B
BRAY From 3pm to 8pm - Wall of the Big Stage in live / Le Périphérique Portuguese graffiti artist, Helio Bray is, with nearly 500K followers on instagram, one of the big stars of the sector. His extraordinary dexterity has made him the guest of honor at numerous conventions in Europe and the United States.
Triptychs in live From 3pm to 8pm - Esplanade / Le Périphérique
Italian painter and tattoo artist, Rame13 likes illustrative graphics. With spray or brush, she paints a chimerical universe, made of vanities, sailors, animals and protected species.
LE MEC BLASÉ : French graffiti artist, Le Mec Blasé has been sketching since the end of the 90's scenes from his Parisian suburb. In an intoxicating hip-hop atmosphere, he stages characters of B-boys and B-girls with a mutinous look.
ANDREA CREWS From 3 to 10 pm - Esplanade / Le Périphérique Fashion designer and upcycling pioneer Maroussia Rebecq is the founder of the ANDREA CREWS brand and the UPCYCLE SOLUTION laboratory. She leads social innovation projects and is interested in creative empowerment strategies. For FREESTYLE, she is inspired by reggaeton for a collaborative feminist and activist performance.
BE.GIRL by Valentine Nagata-Ramos (dance) From 4 to 4:30 pm - Main Stage / Le Périphérique Five breakdancers or B.Girls use the movements invented to make the individual shine in the battles, in the service of dialogue and sisterhood. It is no longer a question of confronting the other and overtaking her, but of going towards her. A tribute to female hip-hop dance.
WHEELZ AND FEET From 4 to 8 pm - Alcove 2 / Le Périphérique The most fashionable roller jam in Paris takes place under the ring road! Accessible to all, on rollerblades (lent on site) or on foot, Wheelz and Feet is an invitation to dance freestyle. Here, no imposed choreography, but a funky sound-system and an open space, where to meet for the pleasure to turn in circle all together!
REGGAETON BLOCK PARTY by PERREO SUPREMO (dance and music) From 5pm to 10pm - Main Stage / Le Périphérique Crossing influences from the Caribbean and Central America, reggaeton mixes reggae, hip hop and dancehall to give birth to a new musical style. Born in the 2000s, this music, which tells the story of life in the neighborhoods and invites sensuality, is now the most listened to in the world. Anaco and Carla Naté, one a DJ and the other a choreographer, created the Perreo Supremo collective to share their passion on the dancefloor and to make this music with explicit lyrics a force for female empowerment. All in benevolence and inclusiveness, Perreo Supremo gives you a reggaeton dance class before dragging you into the heat of their Reggaeton Block Party with DJ Bel'Oka until sunset!
A crazy program, for a weekend of party! This month of May ends on a high note, with Freestyle and La Villette.
Little Freestyle, the free street art festival for kids at Little Villette, May 27 and 28
Little Freestyle, the free street art festival for kids at Little Villette, May 27 and 28
