Valentine was born in Japan and grew up in France with the influence of Eastern and Western cultures. Attracted to dance since her childhood, Breakdance smiled to her in 1998. As a psychology student, she used public places and empty train stations as playgrounds before joining the Cie Black Blanc Beur (1st French hip-hop dance company).

From Paris to Rotterdam or Los Angeles, Bgirl Valentine competed against hundreds of Bboys and won the title of vice-champion of the world at the BOTY in 2004 and a victory at the We Bgirlz in 2007. She collaborates with several international dance companies (Montalvo/Hervieu, Par Terre, Farid Berki, 6ème Dimension, etc.) and sets up her own company "Uzumaki" to choreograph a solo: Sadako-2011, a duet: JE suis TOI-2014 and a quartet: #MMIBTY- 2018 where she mixes breakdance and Voguing. She continues her research on bgirlism with BE.GIRL- 2020/21, a piece for 5 b.girls.

Inspired by Asian traditions and European modernism, Valentine's career has taken her from battles to performances to choreography. She teaches and gives back to the new generation her experience nourished by her travels around the world and her constant search for the evolution of movement.

Besides the technicality of Breakdance, there is a very instinctive side that young people and/or parents appreciate: walking on all fours, finding oneself in a stopped position, legs in the air on a precise count gives a funny and light aspect, but also a feeling of surpassing oneself (one is capable of it!)
The proposed workshop will be based on musical listening, which is essential in hip-hop.

From top-rock (preparation steps before going down to the floor) to footwork (very fast footwork) to freeze (standing still), bboying will be approached in a playful and lively way. This dance seems inaccessible at first sight, but Valentine makes it easy and understandable for children and seniors alike.

Trained by the breakeuse Valentine Nagata-Ramos of the Uzumaki Company, the participants appropriate the steps, the rhythm and the figures on the ground characteristic of Breakdance. To understand that the body can stretch, bend, turn or jump is also to understand that the creation of movement can be infinite.