Raphael Moussa Hillebrand
Choreographer, dancer, curator and activist Raphael Moussa Hillebrand was born in Hong Kong in 1982, rooted in Germany and West Africa, raised in Berlin and trained through Hip Hop. In June 2014, he completed his master's degree in choreography at the University of the Arts - HZT Berlin. Based on this background, he picks up his instinct for socio-political issues as well as translating cultural facets and identities and transfers them into his choreographic works of Hip Hop Dance Theater. With the same passion, he has been working with children and young people as well as students and teachers on a wide variety of levels since 1998, empowering through dance.
As an idea generator and founding member of the world's first hip-hop political party: Die Urbane. A Hip-Hop Party, he advocates decolonization as well as empowerment and cultural diversity, among other things. His current theater piece, produced at Ballhaus Naunynstraße/ Berlin "On my shoulders" premiered in September 2019. In 2020, he was honored by the German Dance Award for his outstanding artistic development in dance.
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As an idea generator and founding member of the world's first hip-hop political party: Die Urbane. A Hip-Hop Party, he advocates decolonization as well as empowerment and cultural diversity, among other things. His current theater piece, produced at Ballhaus Naunynstraße/ Berlin "On my shoulders" premiered in September 2019. In 2020, he was honored by the German Dance Award for his outstanding artistic development in dance.
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