The Idea

"Top" hip hop dances have a different impact on people.
Until then, there was no event presenting the various styles of "top" dance: Popping, Locking, Hip hop new style and House dance.
That's why, in 2001, Bruce Soné, lover of the dance for a long time, and the MPT Victor Jara, led in that time by Pascal Gilbert, decided to organize a journey of perfection in New York. The idea was to reward 5 better students of classes.
The classes were taught by three great US dancers and choreographers: Brian Green, Shannon Mabra and Jazzy J.
In 2002, the organizers did it again, but this time, by making the Americans come in France.
The purpose was not only to touch more people, but to allow people who couldn't afford move to US to see great names of hip hop dance and by that way, to develop hip hop dance in France.
"Juste debout" was born.

What is exactly the "Juste Debout"?

World wild key event for all!

Thousands of spectators coming from the four corners of the Earth attend the most important event in the world in terms of hip hop dance, discipline called "top".
The concept: award dancers –amateurs or professionals- for their originality, musicality, spirit and homogeneity. 4 great techniques of top dance are explored: Locking, Popping, Hip Hop and House Dance. A 5th category, Experimental, is offered, referring to new influences and opening top dance to new horizons.
It is an unavoidable meeting for all professionals of dance (producers, choreographers, artistic agent, dancers…) French and foreigners. This meeting is a way to discover talents of tomorrow.

Internationals preselections facing an exceptional jury

Preselections: about ten dates organized abroad and in France, the last stop at the city hall of Paris. Only 16 duos of dancers are selected for the day of the Meeting in Paris-Bercy. The winner dancers of the preselections confront each other, 2 versus 2, per dance category, in front of a professional jury.
The jury composed of strong personality recognized of the hip hop dance, award 4 winner duos and a soloist winner dancer in experimental.
The Preselections, the dance Workshops given by the jury and the Meeting create an innovating area, meetings and convivial exchanges one of a kind for dancers all around the world.

Juste Debout, it's also a magazine

Juste Debout it's also, since 2005, the first bimonthly free magazine in France in the dance world. This magazine, that currently don't have any equivalent in France, either in paying or free press, is delivered in 20 000 copies in dance school around Paris and in France for huge cultural events dedicated to dance. You can find the Juste Debout Magazine on the top page of the website.