Deicy Sanches is a French-Cape Verdean filmmaker and dancer based in the suburbs of Paris. Due to her heritage and sensibility, she is interested in the issues of identity, colonisation and bodily memory through movement, which she explores through various mediums: film, photography and dance.
Over the past five years, she has made documentaries in Cape Verde, as well as artistic dance short films in France and Japan, as part of the Auditalents programme at the Palais de Tokyo and a collaboration at Villa Kujoyama. Coming from a hip-hop background, she is interested in clubbing culture, its music and dances, and the underground club scene as a space of escape for racialised and marginalised communities. In 2020, she co-founded the collective ‘Envahisseurs’ with designer Teddy Sanches, which expresses its vision of society and its environment through hip-hop, an artistic movement that is total and multidisciplinary in its essence. With an interest in black cultures' aspirations for freedom, dance is for her a means of expressing the whole being, body and soul, a daily practice that allows one to reconnect with oneself and one's roots, and to experience a certain state of the body conducive to cosmic experience.
In 2022, she was awarded the Trame residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 2024, she and Teddy Sanches were invited to participate in a Carte Blanche at the Bozar Museum in Brussels as part of the opening of the Afropolitan Festival. In 2025, she was invited to Brazil by the Quitus and IbiraLab collectives to share her work at the Brazilian Cinematheque and give a masterclass at Bloco do beco in São Paulo. Then, on the occasion of Cape Verde's 50th anniversary of independence, she was invited to participate in the collective exhibition ‘Simenti di onti na txon di manhan’ at the Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde.
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https://envahisseurs.art
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