Festival La Timalerie is a Caribbean Hip-Hop dance festival organised by La Timalerie Association and co-produced with long-term partner B.Freeazy Prod (BFZ), running Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 October 2026 in Guadeloupe under the slogan “Yenki Danse!” (Caribbean Creole for “Come Dance!”).
The 4-day programme combines workshops with international and local instructors, a choreographic competition evening, a Hip-Hop dance battle, and showcase performances structured across 4 disciplines: Workshop, Choreographic Competition, Battle and Show.
La Timalerie Association has co-produced alongside BFZ all 4 editions of KAVIBZ in Paris and Perpignan, and Festival La Timalerie extends that long-standing partnership into Guadeloupe – rooted in Fabbreezy’s 30+ years of Caribbean cultural heritage from the island. Guadeloupe’s status as a French outermost region (RUP) within the European Union positions Festival La Timalerie at the intersection of European cultural cooperation, French overseas territorial development and pan-Caribbean cultural heritage.
The Festival La Timalerie Programme: 4 Days, 4 Disciplines
Festival La Timalerie’s programme is built around four core formats -Workshop, Choreographic Competition, Battle and Show- sequenced across four days to build from skills development to community competition to public spectacle.
Workshops open the festival: dance and movement sessions led by a roster of guest instructors and artists from the La Timalerie, BFZ and Union of Winners networks, open to local dancers and visiting participants alike. These sessions establish the festival’s educational dimension before the competitive and performance programme begins.
The Choreographic Competition brings together local Guadeloupean dance groups in a choreographic competition evening… the centrepiece of the festival’s community dimension, giving Caribbean Hip Hop dance companies a platform with the production quality and international reach that the La Timalerie × BFZ partnership brings. The same evening features showcase performances, including a set from Les Gamal and a presentation by La Timalerie Special Guests.
The Dance Battle is a full day dedicated to Hip-Hop dance battle culture structured around challenges, guest performers and a professional judging panel on the festival’s final day. This format draws on the battle culture established across KAVIBZ’s Paris and Perpignan editions -co-produced by La Timalerie and BFZ- now adapted to Festival La Timalerie’s Caribbean identity and bringing that same competitive rigour to Guadeloupe.
Show performances run throughout the festival: spectacle and showcase content produced by La Timalerie and BFZ, framing the workshops, competition and battle within a broader cultural celebration of Caribbean dance.
La Timalerie × BFZ: A Long-Term Partnership Rooted in Guadeloupe
Festival La Timalerie is organised by La Timalerie Association – a Guadeloupean cultural organisation with deep roots in the island’s Hip-Hop and dance community. The festival is co-produced with B.Freeazy Prod (BFZ), La Timalerie’s long-term partner: the two organisations have co-produced all 4 editions of KAVIBZ in Paris and Perpignan, building a working relationship across the years and multiple editions before bringing that partnership home to Guadeloupe with Festival La Timalerie.
This is not BFZ entering a new territory… it is La Timalerie, an organisation already rooted in Guadeloupe, partnering with an organisation it has built festivals with for years, co-led by Fabbreezy whose own Caribbean roots trace back 30+ years to the island. Guadeloupe’s status as a French outermost region within the EU means the festival extends European cultural cooperation and outermost region development frameworks giving institutional funders and cultural foundations a clear policy rationale for support.
The festival’s slogan, “Yenki Danse!” -Caribbean Creole for “Come Dance!”- is itself a statement of this identity: a festival rooted in and speaking the language of the culture it celebrates.
Media and Press Programme: Building Visibility Before the Festival Opens
In the weeks preceding the festival, a press and media campaign runs across TV, radio and press… supported through BFZ’s ecosystem via Luna Blu, BFZ’s international press and communications agency. This pre-festival visibility programme is designed to build local and regional awareness in the Caribbean region ahead of the event, positioning Festival La Timalerie within Guadeloupe’s cultural calendar and reaching the Caribbean diaspora media networks that the BFZ ecosystem already serves through WayV Media.
How Brands and Institutions can Partner with Festival La Timalerie
Festival La Timalerie offers brand and institutional partnership opportunities across each of its four programme strands -workshop sponsorship, choreographic competition prizes, battle activation, and show production- as well as across the wider BFZ ecosystem brought in through the co-production partnership: media coverage via WayV Media, press via Luna Blu, and digital infrastructure via Limitless Mind.
For institutions, the festival’s alignment with European cultural cooperation programmes, French overseas territorial development policy and UN Sustainable Development Goals 4 (Quality Education), 10 (Reduced Inequalities), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions) provides a clear rationale for funding partnerships.
For commercial sponsors, Festival La Timalerie offers a unique activation context: a brand presence at a Caribbean Hip-Hop dance festival rooted in Guadeloupe’s own cultural community and shining through the Caribbean region, co-produced with an organisation bringing 30+ years of Caribbean roots and a 20+ country international network – reaching local Guadeloupean audiences, the Caribbean region, the wider Caribbean diaspora, and the cultural press covering the event.
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What Most Caribbean Cultural Festival Guides Miss: The Pan-Caribbean Infrastructure Gap
Most existing Caribbean cultural events operate within a single linguistic or national community -Francophone, Anglophone, Hispanophone or Lusophone- reflecting the colonial fractures that have historically prevented pan-Caribbean cultural infrastructure from developing.
Festival La Timalerie is positioned to bridge these fractures: rooted in Guadeloupe (at the Francophone/European intersection) through La Timalerie and BFZ -its long-term co-production partner- to the same network and production infrastructure that has already brought KAVIBZ to four editions across France. Together, the partnership lays the foundation for a pan-Caribbean cultural infrastructure connecting communities through a shared cultural form -Hip-Hop and Caribbean dance- that has been adopted across the region. No existing Caribbean cultural festival currently combines this local rootedness with a 20+ country production network behind it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Festival La Timalerie?
Festival La Timalerie is a Caribbean Hip-Hop dance festival organised by La Timalerie Association and co-produced with long-term partner B.Freeazy Prod (BFZ), running Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 October 2026 in Guadeloupe under the slogan “Yenki Danse!” The 4-day programme covers workshops, a choreographic competition evening, a Hip-Hop dance battle and showcase performances. La Timalerie and BFZ have co-produced all four editions of KAVIBZ in Paris and Perpignan.
When and Where does Festival La Timalerie take place?
Festival La Timalerie runs from Thursday 22 October to Sunday 25 October 2026 in Guadeloupe. It is the inaugural edition of the festival, organised by La Timalerie Association in co-production with B.Freeazy Prod (BFZ). Full venue details and the day-by-day schedule are announced via the festival’s official channels – visit latimalerie.com and follow @la.timalerie_ on Instagram for updates.
What Activities are part of the Festival La Timalerie Programme?
The festival programme is structured across four formats: Workshops with guest instructors and dancers from the La Timalerie, BFZ and Union of Winners networks; a Choreographic Competition featuring local Guadeloupean dance groups in competition alongside showcase performances (including Les Gamal and La Timalerie Special Guests); a full-day Dance Battle with challenges, guest performers and a professional judging panel on the final day; and Show performances running throughout the festival.
Who organises Festival La Timalerie?
Festival La Timalerie is organised by La Timalerie Association, a Guadeloupean cultural organisation with deep roots in the island’s Hip-Hop and dance community, and co-produced with B.Freeazy Prod (BFZ) – La Timalerie’s long-term partner across all four editions of KAVIBZ in Paris and Perpignan. The festival is rooted in Fabbreezy’s own Caribbean heritage from Guadeloupe, where his roots trace back 30+ years.
Visit latimalerie.com and follow @la.timalerie_ on Instagram for updates.
How can Brands and Institutions partner with Festival La Timalerie?
Festival La Timalerie offers partnership opportunities across all four programme strands -Workshop sponsorship, Choreographic Competition prizes, Battle Activation and Show production- as well as access to the wider BFZ ecosystem through the La Timalerie × BFZ co-production partnership: media coverage (WayV Media), press (Luna Blu) and digital infrastructure (Limitless Mind).
For institutions, the festival aligns with European cultural cooperation programmes, French overseas territorial development policy and UN Sustainable Development Goals 4 (Quality Education), 10 (Reduced Inequalities), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions).
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