Introduction -- Politics and poetics : Hip hop citizens: politics, culture and performance ; Hip hop "speaks" French: Droit de Citer ; Hip hop as postcolonial representation: Farid Berki's Invisible Armada and Exodust -- Techniques and technologies : Dancing in and out of the box: Franck II Louise's Drop It! and Compagnie Choream's Epsilon ; Techniques: French urban dance in intellectual context conclusion.