HYPE OCC, 4th edition: 9 October to 25 November 2026
Here we go! This year, HYPE OCC celebrates hiphop culture and its related aesthetics in 7 cities over 7 weeks. We’ve lined up performances, battles, a jam, concerts, workshops, masterclasses, films and talks… Let’s get HYPE together!!!!
Foix & Saverdun | 9–25 October | L’Estive, Scène nationale de Foix et de l’Ariège
Montpellier & Castelnau-le-Lez | 17 October to 25 November | Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse – Montpellier Danse + CCN Occitanie | Opéra Comédie | Théâtre Jean Vilar | Cinéma Utopia | Maisons pour Tous Mélina Mercouri, Georges Brassens and Louis Feuillade | DITEP Nazareth | Kiasma Castelnau-le-Lez
Perpignan | 19–23 October and 4–7 November | Casa Musicale
Bessèges | 21 October | La Maison Danse, CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie
Tarbes | 4–5 November | DANS6T & Le Parvis ✱ Scène Nationale Tarbes Pyrénées
2026 PROGRAMME
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The HYPE OCC festival is a creation of camin aktion. Launched in 2023, its mission is to give a new platform to the diversity of urban dances, in all their forms and expressions — for the benefit of companies and the choreographic field, and to offer audiences across the region a richer, more diverse program.
From the 2024 edition onward, the regional bet paid off: HYPE OCC was co-led by camin aktion, L’Estive, national theatre Foix and Ariège, and the Casa Musicale Perpignan. In 2025, new partners in Tarbes joined the momentum, with DANS6T and Le Parvis ✱ national theatre Tarbes-Pyrénées linking the dynamic to the FEST’NOV festival. This year, La Maison Danse – CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie is joining the festival.
HYPE OCC is now a network for sharing, support, and the touring of works, for all audiences. Through this approach, it is part of the shared momentum of RHOCC – Réseau HipHop Occitanie and the Réseau Danse Occitanie.
For its regional dimension, it is supported by the Région Occitanie. With the State’s elimination of the festival fund, DRAC Occitanie is no longer supporting HYPE OCC in 2026 (true, we’re no Château de Versailles), putting this initiative in a precarious position. The partners remain resolute and convinced that this approach deserves to continue, for the artists, the audiences, the works and social cohesion, but without popular solidarity and private sponsorship, the festival will struggle to survive. HYPE OCC is committed to the visibility of the works and to a logic of regional touring. This year, ONDA is supporting the touring of the show Intimacy in Tarbes and Montpellier.
The Montpellier edition is supported by the City of Montpellier, and carried out with our partners Agora, cité internationale de la danse, the Opéra-Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Théâtre Jean Vilar, the Cinéma Utopia, and the Maisons pour Tous Mélina Mercouri, Louis Feuillade and Georges Brassens. For the first time, we are partnering with the Art2Rue festival, led by the Maisons pour Tous de Montpellier.
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Performance Intimacy
With the support of the Caisse des Dépôts corporate philanthropy programme, SACD and Onda as part of the TRIO(S) programme – emerging artists strand
