Dance session with Envahisseurs
Saturday 21 Sep 2024 from 4:30pm to 5:45pm
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A dance session with the Envahisseurs collective, led by dancer and director Deicy Sanches and dancer and designer Teddy Sanches.
The Envahisseurs collective wants to highlight the hip-hop and social dances invented by black and Latino minorities in the United States (in the streets and clubs) at the end of the 20th century. For Deicy and Teddy, these dances are charged with historical, social and cultural meaning. To this end, Envahisseurs weaves a balanced dialogue between these dances and other art forms, and incorporates current themes such as decolonialism and feminism.
Teddy and Deicy express their vision through a global artistic approach: a battle at the Centre Pompidou in 2019, a film on film exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo as part of the Audi Talents prize, research on clothing at Villa Kujoyama, performances for Nuit Blanche Kyoto, the Chichas de la pensée, at the Collection Lambert...
Most recently they were invited by curator Paul Briottet for a carte blanche as part of a ‘Bozar All Over the P(a)lace’ nocturne. They invaded the museum with a discussion led by Olivier Marboeuf and Alessandra Seutin, a performance by 8 dancers, film screenings and DJ sets, including one by the artist Kem Kem.
The same year, with this project, he won the Audi talents prize for the development of a film directed by his twin sister Deicy Sanches and a happening based on a circular protocol. Hip-hop gravitates towards his daily life, becoming in turn a fertile playground for the needs of tomorrow's world. An exhibition accompanied by a weekend of performances has been devoted to him at the Palais de Tokyo in summer 2021.
With Deicy, motivated to develop this project which became the ‘Envahisseurs’ collective, he won the Villa Kujoyama residency in Kyoto in 2021. The collective was able to perform for Nuit Blanche Kyoto and the Lambert collection in 2022. They were recently invited by Paul Briottet to invade the Bozar museum in Brussels with a talk led by Olivier Marboeuf and Alessandra Seutin, a performance by 8 dancers, film screenings and DJ sets, including one by the artist Kem Kem.
Teddy Sanches is also co-founder of the HALL.HAUS design studio with Abdoulaye Niang, Sammy Bernoussi and Zakari Boukhari. Right from the start, they were winners of the ‘À l'Oeuvre’ residency at the Lafayette Anticipations Fondation, during which they created and exhibited the ‘Curry Mango’ armchair, an object that expresses their identity. It was with this creation that they were finalists in the ‘Design Parade’ 16 festival at the Villa Noailles in 2022.
Their collaborators include brands such as Nike and Ikea, and they were recently winners of the French Design 100. Their sofa space ‘Haus Dari’, which they created during the first design residency created by the French agency Afalula and the Royal Commission Of AlUla in 2024, is currently on display at Lafayette Anticipations in the Agora.
Her heritage and sensitivity have led her to explore issues of identity, colonisation and bodily memory through movement, using a variety of media: film, dance and music. In 2020, in collaboration with designer Teddy Sanches, she wrote and directed the movie Envahisseurs, shot on film, about hip-hop dance and the notion of the circle, which she exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo as part of the Audi talents programme.
Passionate about house music and clubbing culture, she is interested in post-colonial musical movements that mix electronic music with traditional and modern music from so-called Portuguese-speaking African countries.
In 2022, she was the laureate of the Trame residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where she carried out research into the dances of resistance that emerged from slavery and were born out of the cultural breakdown of the populations deported to the New World.
In 2023, she directed a dance short, In Between, at Villa Kujoyama, Japan, which questioned the body and the different feminine and masculine energies that make it up, as well as its relationship to the living, inspired by African visions of the world where man is intertwined with the cosmos, nature and the community.
In 2024, she was invited, in collaboration with designer Teddy Sanches, to give a Carte Blanche at the Bozar museum in Brussels, as part of their nocturnes and the opening of their Afropolitan Festival. Together, Deicy and Teddy Sanches took over the museum with a talk by Olivier Marboeuf and Alessandra Seutin, a performance by 8 dancers, film screenings and DJ sets, including one by artist Kem Kem.