Aged between 27 and 31, these students have already engaged in a professional career as a performer/choreographer prior to their entry to the school. Like all the previous ones, this class is distinguished by its international dimension.
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Samir Kennedy is an Anglo-Algerian artist based between London and Marseille. He works at the intersection of video, sound, choreography and performance. In his work, the body is a site from which notions of class, race, otherness, queerness and abjection are performed. His work reflects a keen sense of contemporary political precarity and urban apathy.
Hans Peter Diop Ibaghino is an urban hip-hop dancer and performer with a versatile body language, trained mainly at the École des Sables. He works for choreographers such as Patrick Acogny and Robyn Orlin. Founder of the association and the Cie Art'Corps, he has developed several training and battle projects in Gabon. He is currently conducting research into the notion of aesthetics linked to his sensitivity as a dancer and his condition as an initiated African man.
Haman Mpadire is an emerging artist, performer and choreographer born in Uganda. Trained at the École des Sables, Haman uses the body as a medium to narrate contemporary narratives and multi-tasking socio-political and cultural landscapes. His work explores the representation of black bodies and the complex and multiple relationships between identity, visibility and colonialism.
Saphir Belkheir is a performance artist, his career started at ENSAD in Nancy until 2015. More recently Saphir has been nourished by the DETER training (initiated by Bintou Dembélé). His work deals with intersectional issues (gender, class, race) and is based on his personal narrative. The malleability of memory and its concrete inscription in our bodies are subjects that carry him.
Clara Marie Müller is a dancer and performer. She studied at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne and the ZHdK in Zurich and has collaborated with many artists such as Georgia Sagri, Zwoisy Mears-Clarke and Mouvoir / Stephanie Thiersch. She is a trained Feldenkrais practitioner and her concern is to create sustainable practices and a holistic vision of dance, body and choreography.
Hamed Shafaneh Rad was born in Iran. He studied at the Samandarian Theater Academy where he obtained a master's degree in directing. In parallel, he trained as a dancer and collaborated on Maha Dance projects. In each of his performances, he works to expand the concept of choreography through the relationship between poem, objects and movement.
Elliot Reed assembles bodies, movement and narrative, wielding performance as a tool. His projects span video, dance, and sculpture and illuminate the ways in which visible (and invisible) actors leave their mark. In 2019, he is a WEB dance fellow and in 2019-2020, artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. His exhibitions include Metro Pictures, MoMA PS1, OCD Chinatown, The Getty Center and Kunsthaus Glarus.