No Way Back
Purposefully coming from a hip-hop background, the Company does not deny its origins but sublimates them. The Company uses its disciplines as tools of creative expression to uplift reality. Fed by its influences, the Company does not shrink from mixing up styles to reinforce its message.
Its flagship show “No Way Back” has been performed a hundred times in Belgium and exported to France and the Netherlands. Since then the Company has created a show for street festivals, “Les Polissons”, a solo clownish show called “Super Showman”, an award winning show that brings street performers on the scene, “FrontX”, “Abstrkt” and is now embarking on a new adventure with its show “Winners?”!
If there is one recurring theme in the work of the NWB Company, it is that of personal fulfilment: the emphasis on individuality and differences as enriching humanity. The theme of the superhero comes up frequently.
The No Way Back Company has always been committed to treating societal issues with humour, a realistic discourse, aware of the current difficulties but resolutely positive and turned towards a better future, thanks to the tools in its tool box: the urban arts.
Between hip-hop and contemporary dance.Between street and stage.Between today’s tensions and tomorrow’s possibilities.
CREATING MOVEMENT,SHAPING MEANING
No Way Back creates bold dance works where urban culture meets contemporary expression. Inspired by society and its complexities, the Company combines realism with optimism, humour with commitment. Through a mix of styles and disciplines, it celebrates individuality and difference, using movement as a tool for expression, resilience and transformation.
Detours festival
At the crossroads of hip-hop and contemporary dance, between street and stage, the Detours Festival is driven by No Way Back as an artistic and social platform rooted in the present and open to the future. A pioneer of urban arts, it brings together diverse audiences through an interdisciplinary programme blending dance, music and performance. By investing public spaces and opening cultural venues to the street, No Way Back fosters creativity, connection and a contemporary vision of urban culture.
