INTERVIEW
Guest of the show There is not a life in life , Saturday, comedian Jarry, currently a jury member of the show Mask Singer on TF1 , told how, younger, he was drying the judo to ... go to his dance classes.
"My dad wanted me to do judo so I dressed in judo at home to please him, and I took a class in modern jazz, it was funny because I was the only boy," he said. remembers Jarry, whose real name is Anthony Lambert. "And suddenly, when I was doing the judo match, I was nil," admits the comedian. "My dad did not understand so I was negotiating with the candidates, I was going to see them saying, 'can you leave me on the tatami for ten seconds before I put ippon'".
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"I could have become a professional dancer"
It is his mother, with whom he maintains a fusional relationship, and which he took the name of a girl as a pseudonym, who enrolled him in his first dance class in Angers, his hometown. He joined the Angers Contemporary Dance Center (CNDC) and confided that he could have "become a professional dancer" but "it would have been part of the family culture to be able to dance".
At CDNC, Jarry follows the first hip hop dance-urban dance training in France "with all the greatest hip-hop dance choreographers". He remembers with a laugh: "It was great because it allowed me to do a virile dance even if I dreamed of spikes and big throws". He adds: "I did not do a break, I did not do what the boys did, I did locking, pop, voguing and I loved it because I did not need to talk, it's my body. who was speaking and I thought it was magical! "