Hip-Hop for graduation
A comment on Allons Enfants
The Turgot Highschool in Paris is not just an ordinary school. Here, in addition to their lessons, the students also take hip-hop dance classes, practice for national competitions and learn to express themselves through dance. "Allons Enfants" follows eight students from different backgrounds through their everyday lives at the school.
In their documentary, the two co-directors Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai focus on the fact that the Turgot gives young people from all social backgrounds the opportunity to escape their determinism and graduate from school. In order to continue to take dance classes, they have to achieve good grades. In "Allons Enfants" we see in turns dance scenes with animating music, teaching sequences and talks about grades between st...