In the project Break n'Tales, 60 schoolchildren from Løgstrup School and Skive Free School will create a multicultural performance during a 10-day artistic boarding school together with a group of 16 children and young people from Burkina Faso and a total of 9 professional artists.

The project explores artistic expression at the intersection of folk culture and modernity, specifically folk dance, folk music and folk narrative versus hip-hop/break, improvisational music and rap.

The project experiments with the concept of cultural citizenship. Specifically, it works on mutual capacity building and 'unexpected' skills development. In this context, the projects have the character of cultural encounters, where elements from Burkinabe and Danish culture are brought into play with each other with a view to enrichment and amusement, to creating greater cultural understanding, dialogue and tolerance - and to creating camaraderie and artistic partnerships that go beyond the projects.

Timeframe
The preparation of the project will take place locally in Denmark and Burkina Faso in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 respectively, and will be held between 29 August and 9 September 2011 at Kulturprinsen. The project concludes with several performances on 8 and 9 September in connection with the festival På Kasernen.

Participants
From Denmark, the 4th graders from Løgstrup Skole and Friskolen in Skive will participate, with a total of 60 children, two music teachers, two class teachers and the Danish artists Steen Haugesen (stage director), Claus Carlsen (multimusician and composer) and Steffen Rasmussen (artist and hip-hop/breakdancer).

From Burkina Faso, the children and youth cultural centre Centre Culturel Koombi will participate with 16 children and young people aged 10 - 16 years plus the 6 artists: KPG (artistic director, actor and storyteller), Drissa Gnissien (dancer and choreographer, teacher), Wilfried Hien (djimba player and teacher), Muctard (percussionist and teacher), Richard Kientega (percussion) and Charles Panimdi Kientega (percussion).

Funding
The project is supported by Region Midtjylland/Regional Development, the Ministry of Culture/Art Council/Huskunstnerordningen and by CKU/DCCD plus the participating schools