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European hip hop between Brussels, Amsterdam, Hanover and London
The opening of the 2011 Lezarts urban dance festival at Brussels’ centre of fine arts (Bozar) in mid-February was more relaxed and accessible than usual. We meet choreographers, b-boys and the folks at the European laboratory of hip hop dance
Paris: the poor party, prickly periphery psyche
Today, Paris stands accused on two popular charges: by day it's become too much of a museum city, and by night it's killed any party pulse it ever had. The metropole's veins are in its overcrowded metros which wind outwards and across the periphery to the stained memory of 2005's suburban rioting. However inside the city, young people are managing to find ways to live cheaply. Five pan-European journalists (and a Taiwanese!) hit the French capital for the next installment of a monthly cities reporting mission, 'EU crisis on the ground' - read what they discovered, with an exclusive video and image gallery below
Seville - always on the move
The Andalusian staples of tapas and flamenco are metaphors for a city that is always on the move, without sacrificing its traditions.
