This Friday, France 3 intends to unravel folk dances

• The Grand Concours des Régions: What will be the best folk dance in France?

  is broadcast this Friday, March 18, 2022, from 9:05 p.m. on France 3.

• The ten companies in competition will be decided by a jury composed of Mareva Galanter, Vincent Niclo, Caroline Margeridon and Laurent Luyat.

• “You will understand how modern and difficult folk dancing can be.

  Some require a very important physical condition, it makes the cardio work, ”promises the host Cyril Féraud.

What will be the best folk dance? 

asks France 3 and prejudice arrives with its big wooden clogs.

Nerdy, this variation of the

broadcast this Friday from 9:05 p.m.?

Not at all, replies host Cyril Féraud, who promises that all public prejudices will quickly be shattered.

“You will understand how modern and difficult folk dancing can be.

Some require a very important physical condition, it makes the cardio work, ”he warns.

If you think that the pas de bourrée are reserved for

, you are wrong: the 230 or so amateurs involved in the competition are between 6 and 82 years old, and the average age is around 30.

It is not in a multipurpose room or on the modest platform of a local festival that the ten competing troupes perform but at the Royal Palace, in Kirrwiller, in Alsace.

A cabaret that Cyril Féraud presents as "a setting": "There are more than 2 million euros of screens on the stage".

"Historically, these dances are not designed for the stage"

The device includes no less than thirteen cameras.

"You need an overhead to fully understand the movement of the rounds, a steady cam to fit into these rounds and recover the emotions...", justifies Brice Juigné, artistic production.

“Folk dances are above all street dances,” he adds.

Historically, they were used to create links and contact, they are not designed for the stage.

All the work of Stéphane Jarny [the choreographer] was to tap into the essence of these dances and make them televisual, that is to say, to ensure that the dancers turn towards the public, to bet on fast spins…”

The journalist Laurent Luyat, one of the four members of the jury responsible for deciding between the troops, admits to being won over.

“I think this is going to be one of the biggest entertainment nights of the year.

It is the

of France 3, ”he says bluntly.

" A tear in the eye "

Speaking of Miss France, Mareva Galanter, crowned at the end of 1998, is also part of the jury.

"I'm not here to judge the technique, it's not my job," she says.

To make her classification, she relied on “the transmission, the feeling and the emotion.

“In Paris, we evolve in a world of superficiality, social networks, overrated things, a little fake.

There, we return to the essentials, to values, to true and cultural things.

They breathe their traditions, the family stories that endure from one generation to another, it's priceless, ”she adds.

The aspect of values ​​and generational transmission also prevails among the other jurors, Caroline Margeridon and Vincent Niclo.

The singer says he regularly "had tears in his eye", moved by this "human program".

However, he says it himself, he was not convinced by the concept at the start.

He took the time to reflect before validating his ticket for Alsace where the program was recorded at the end of last year.

He does not regret having made the trip.

"I hope people will take the step to look," he pleads.

What if we let prejudices take off again with their big clogs?

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