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Young people are taking to the streets.<\/strong> They are demanding the means to learn in dignity and build their future, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world \u2014 if we take GDP as a measure of wealth (a matter of perspective!). Education, like culture, healthcare and public services as a whole, is under attack. A cornerstone of our democratic society since 1945, born out of social struggles, public service embodies an essential idea: that of sharing and the common good.<\/strong><\/p>\n A balanced society is built on diversity, on recognising individuals and communities, and on the right to be different and to disagree.<\/strong> It requires equitable access to education, employment, economic resources, healthcare and social protection, freedom of expression and representation. Decades of privatisation and dismantling policies have deepened divisions, weakened entire sections of our social system and eroded trust. Today, this paradigm has revealed itself to be harmful: far from meeting collective needs, it contributes to paralysing society, leaving people stunned by the accumulation of crises. Added to these tensions are ecological emergencies and the threats facing our resources.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By listening, observing and broadening our horizons. By creating spaces for everyone to express themselves and be represented. By embracing differences and recognising diversity as a strength, a source of collective enrichment. This is what art can make possible.<\/strong> This is what we strive to achieve with HYPE OCC: an open, accessible festival embracing diverse cultures and artistic forms, bringing works of art into circulation and fostering encounters throughout Occitanie.<\/p>\n And yet, in 2026, the French government has withdrawn all the financial support it provided to the festival in 2025.<\/p>\n After all, this isn\u2019t Versailles.<\/strong><\/p>\n Live performance unsettles; dance, apparently, is disruptive. As inequalities deepen and public services retreat, a convergence of struggles is essential<\/strong>: for democracy, for a fairer society, and for culture to remain a common good.<\/p>\n Our struggle is to defend a cultural offering accessible to all, to give space, visibility and opportunities for expression to artists and cultures that are still too often marginalised, even stigmatised. It is about ensuring that the diversity of our society is also reflected on stage, within institutions and among audiences.<\/strong><\/p>\n If we continue to champion HYPE OCC, it is because we believe that the festival opens up spaces for encounters, reflection and transformation.<\/strong> Its growing audiences and geographical expansion testify to this need. From a pilot edition in Montpellier in 2023, the festival expanded to three towns and cities in 2024, then five in 2025. In 2026, it reaches seven municipalities across Occitanie<\/strong>, from metropolitan areas to smaller towns and rural communities, from city centres to the outskirts. Bringing culture closer to audiences.<\/strong><\/p>\n This momentum is driven by a mutually supportive network of partners<\/strong> with complementary profiles: an association, a publicly supported dance company, spaces for artistic learning and transmission, national theatres, a National Choreographic Centre, a National Opera House and a National Centre for Choreographic Development. This diversity of organisations, resources and ways of working is our strength, enabling us to carry on despite the growing fragility of public funding.<\/p>\n We are still here in 2026.<\/strong> But we need your support more than ever, particularly in Montpellier, where camin aktion is running the festival with insufficient resources. Attending performances, sharing the programme with those around you, making a donation or involving your company through corporate sponsorship: every gesture counts in sustaining this collective endeavour.<\/strong><\/p>\n Come and discover what different generations of dance artists have to share and express \u2014 through movement, words, conversations or film. HYPE OCC 2026 brings together artists aged 17 to 49, from Montpellier to Angers, from N\u00eemes to Paris, from Lagos to Marseille, from Jacmel to Tarbes. Artists driven by personal, social or aesthetic concerns, or simply by the joy of creating together, of feeling the pulse of movement and music.<\/p>\n Perhaps, here and there, we will find the beginnings of an answer to the questions facing our world, a new perspective, a glimmer of light. One thing is certain: we will be moved, perhaps unsettled, by something intangible \u2014 the fleeting nature of a moment, the subtlety of a gesture, the intensity of the present, a shared experience, an uplifting vibration.<\/p>\n Welcome to HYPE OCC.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/caminaktion.eu\/en\/hypeocc\/” button_text=”Full programme” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”4.27.8″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Struggle and Movement Young people are taking to the streets. They are demanding the means to learn in dignity and build their future, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world \u2014 if we take GDP as a measure of wealth (a matter of perspective!). 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How do we regain perspective, the ability to move forward?<\/strong><\/h4>\n