DANCER · CREATOR · ART. DIRECTOR
AKRAM KHAN COMPANY,
The Jungle Book reimagined
Co-founder & Art. director:
THE DANCING SOCIETY
New York · Brussels · Paris
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Native from Belgium with Cameroonian origins, I studied dance in Paris under the direction of Rick Odums. I graduated from a BFA in dance at the PSPBB/Paris 8 University as well as from Rick Odum’s professional training and teaching programs under scholarship award. I am an alumnus of the Springboard Danse Montréal and of the Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Program. I also am an awardee of the Vocatio Foundation as well as of Phil Collins’s Little Dreams Foundation.
Upon graduating, I moved to Brussels where I danced for different choreographers and started developing my own artistic vision and projects. I co-founded what soon became The Dancing Society a movement-based collective at the intersection of dance and different art forms as well as the Perpetuum Mobile, a Brussels-based international dance festival. Furthermore, I started to share with great enthusiasm my movement practices with both professional and amateur dancers. As a teaching artist, I notably had the opportunity to be of faculty at the Brussels International Ballet School and am known for my positive, generous and demanding approach of movement.
Since moving to New York, I have danced with the CR Dance Company and have been greatly influenced by Gaga as well as physical theater coupled with my personal movement research. This has inspired me to create more works and lead productions both in the US and in Belgium.
“Dance · Create · Experience” being one of my guiding mantras, I dedicate myself to developing my artistic voice as a dancer, creator and cultural stakeholder in order to share the grace and transformative power of dance as many ways as I can.
This is the light I pursue in creations/collaborations as well as with The Dancing Society, The Perpetuum Mobile and the Akram Khan Company that I have recently joined with the international tour of “The Jungle Book reimagined”.