ENVAHISSEURS, PROJECTIVE LISTENING
2025
La Maison des Métallos, Paris
Music is a form of artistic and intuitive communication that stimulates dreams and oneiric visions, acts on our bodies and our unconscious, and whose intensity gives rise to physical states that revive our past experiences.
Using underground diasporic languages and sounds, the dancers experiment movement in an attempt to reveal the physical traces and archives of their existences, but also to feel what they do not yet know they are, to escape the expected through the practice of established and future techniques that defy the established order.
The performance took place as part of the first edition of the Festival d'Art Émergence ‘What the world needs now’.
Direction Deicy Sanches
Choreographers & dancers Deicy Sanches & Mayvis William
Curators Assia Ugobor, Flora Fettah, Lamia Zanna
Clothes Mayvis William
Shoes Radical PR & Asics
Photographer Laura Lafon Cadilhac
2025
La Maison des Métallos, Paris
Music is a form of artistic and intuitive communication that stimulates dreams and oneiric visions, acts on our bodies and our unconscious, and whose intensity gives rise to physical states that revive our past experiences.
Using underground diasporic languages and sounds, the dancers experiment movement in an attempt to reveal the physical traces and archives of their existences, but also to feel what they do not yet know they are, to escape the expected through the practice of established and future techniques that defy the established order.
The performance took place as part of the first edition of the Festival d'Art Émergence ‘What the world needs now’.
Direction Deicy Sanches
Choreographers & dancers Deicy Sanches & Mayvis William
Curators Assia Ugobor, Flora Fettah, Lamia Zanna
Clothes Mayvis William
Shoes Radical PR & Asics
Photographer Laura Lafon Cadilhac
ENVAHISSEURS, A AND B
2025
Unesco, Paris
« A and B » performance for the Garden of Peace by Isamu Noguchi at Unesco France Headquarters.
This performance is inspired by the Japanese choreographer Michio Ito’s technique and gesture sequences « A & B » masculine and feminine which relate to yin-yang, east-asian concept of a balance of contrasting elements in the universel and in each individual.
Ito and Noguchi collaborated on a long series of masks for the choreographer's plays.
Curator Folding Cosmos, Miwako Kurashima
Choreographers Deicy Sanches & Teddy Sanches
Dancers Deicy Sanches, Mayvis William & Teddy Sanches
Photographers lacullière & Nana Kakuta
2025
Unesco, Paris
« A and B » performance for the Garden of Peace by Isamu Noguchi at Unesco France Headquarters.
This performance is inspired by the Japanese choreographer Michio Ito’s technique and gesture sequences « A & B » masculine and feminine which relate to yin-yang, east-asian concept of a balance of contrasting elements in the universel and in each individual.
Ito and Noguchi collaborated on a long series of masks for the choreographer's plays.
Curator Folding Cosmos, Miwako Kurashima
Choreographers Deicy Sanches & Teddy Sanches
Dancers Deicy Sanches, Mayvis William & Teddy Sanches
Photographers lacullière & Nana Kakuta
ENVAHISSEURS, BLACK RADIO
2024
Bozar, Bruxelles
As part of the opening of the Afropolitan Festival, Deicy and Teddy Sanches were invited to give a Carte Blanche at the Bozar Museum in Brussels. Challenging this museum, heir to a colonial past, they invaded it with a conference, performances, films and DJ sets.
The Black Radio performance is a journey through time via movement, in a collective listening experience, searching for archives inscribed in the depths of bodies that were dehumanized.
Choreographer Deicy Sanches
Assistant choreographer Teddy Sanches
Dancers Aubrey Batchily, Deicy Sanches, Joseph Garbar, Kassy Bondoko, Lory Laurac, Mayvis William, Rachad Zangaba, Teddy Sanches
Clothes Anta Thiam, Wilfried Eliazord, Mayvis William (Ugly State) & Envahisseurs
Music (mix) Deicy Sanches
Mixing Wattfutchureez
Dj Olukemi « Kem Kem » Lijadu, Kassy Bondoko & Rachad Zangaba
Talk speakers Alesandra Seutin, Olivier Marboeuf
Moderator Dulia Lengema
Curator Paul Briottet
Project coordinator Elena Ndidi Akilo
Producer officer Olga Briard
Photographer Marin Driguez
2024
Bozar, Bruxelles
As part of the opening of the Afropolitan Festival, Deicy and Teddy Sanches were invited to give a Carte Blanche at the Bozar Museum in Brussels. Challenging this museum, heir to a colonial past, they invaded it with a conference, performances, films and DJ sets.
The Black Radio performance is a journey through time via movement, in a collective listening experience, searching for archives inscribed in the depths of bodies that were dehumanized.
Choreographer Deicy Sanches
Assistant choreographer Teddy Sanches
Dancers Aubrey Batchily, Deicy Sanches, Joseph Garbar, Kassy Bondoko, Lory Laurac, Mayvis William, Rachad Zangaba, Teddy Sanches
Clothes Anta Thiam, Wilfried Eliazord, Mayvis William (Ugly State) & Envahisseurs
Music (mix) Deicy Sanches
Mixing Wattfutchureez
Dj Olukemi « Kem Kem » Lijadu, Kassy Bondoko & Rachad Zangaba
Talk speakers Alesandra Seutin, Olivier Marboeuf
Moderator Dulia Lengema
Curator Paul Briottet
Project coordinator Elena Ndidi Akilo
Producer officer Olga Briard
Photographer Marin Driguez
ENVAHISSEURS (COLLAGES 01)
2022
Festival Nuit Blanche, Kyoto
Performance as part of the opening of the Nuit Blanche Kyoto festival.
The Japanese street is inhabited by these bricklayers wearing pastel outfits with special cuts and materials that they carefully choose in the various dedicated shops. Invisible to the Japanese, glittering to Teddy Sanches, he sees in them a link with the hip- hop culture that has always reappropriated workwear. These workers inspired him to create a new archetype of hip-hop dancewear. For the Nuit Blanche festival in Kyoto, he proposes, with Deicy Sanches, a performance that embodies this reflection and questions the relationship to clothing, to what it initially communicates and to what it becomes if it is diverted from its initial function. The boundaries are redistributed between pomp and ceremony and bodies endowed with a spiritual connection through movement. This piece invites the spectator to look at these bodies which on the surface are only passing through.
Direction Teddy Sanches & Deicy Sanches
Music Kristian Amou
Dancers Mizuka Imanishi, Kou Yamamoto, Emi Ogura, Eri Yamamoto, Deicy Sanches, Teddy Sanches, Shuto Sui
Clothes Teddy Sanches
Production Institut Français du Japon Kansai, Muz Art produce
Photographer Nana Kakuta
2022
Festival Nuit Blanche, Kyoto
Performance as part of the opening of the Nuit Blanche Kyoto festival.
The Japanese street is inhabited by these bricklayers wearing pastel outfits with special cuts and materials that they carefully choose in the various dedicated shops. Invisible to the Japanese, glittering to Teddy Sanches, he sees in them a link with the hip- hop culture that has always reappropriated workwear. These workers inspired him to create a new archetype of hip-hop dancewear. For the Nuit Blanche festival in Kyoto, he proposes, with Deicy Sanches, a performance that embodies this reflection and questions the relationship to clothing, to what it initially communicates and to what it becomes if it is diverted from its initial function. The boundaries are redistributed between pomp and ceremony and bodies endowed with a spiritual connection through movement. This piece invites the spectator to look at these bodies which on the surface are only passing through.
Direction Teddy Sanches & Deicy Sanches
Music Kristian Amou
Dancers Mizuka Imanishi, Kou Yamamoto, Emi Ogura, Eri Yamamoto, Deicy Sanches, Teddy Sanches, Shuto Sui
Clothes Teddy Sanches
Production Institut Français du Japon Kansai, Muz Art produce
Photographer Nana Kakuta
SISTERHOOD IS ALWAYS A STRENGH
2022
La Villette, Paris
As part of Les Chichas de la Pensée event, which took place at the Grande Halle de la Villette, Deicy Sanches directed and performed a piece based on Bell Hooks' concept of sisterhood, accompanied by four dancers.
Direction Deicy Sanches
Dancers Mayvis William, Loanne Mané, Angèle Batchily, Deicy Sanches, Samantha Tchama
Photographer lacuillère
2022
La Villette, Paris
As part of Les Chichas de la Pensée event, which took place at the Grande Halle de la Villette, Deicy Sanches directed and performed a piece based on Bell Hooks' concept of sisterhood, accompanied by four dancers.
Direction Deicy Sanches
Dancers Mayvis William, Loanne Mané, Angèle Batchily, Deicy Sanches, Samantha Tchama
Photographer lacuillère
THE THREE CONCENTRIC CIRCLES
2022
Cité des Arts, Paris
As part of her residency at the Cité des Arts, during an open workshop curated by photographers Gille Coulon and Bertrand Meunier from the Tendance Flou collective, Deicy Sanches staged and performed a piece based on the concept of mobility and the shape of the circle, in collaboration with artist Ange Kayifa.
Dancers Ange Kayifa & Deicy Sanches
Curators Gilles Coulon & Bertrand Meunier
Photographer Maurine Tric
2022
Cité des Arts, Paris
As part of her residency at the Cité des Arts, during an open workshop curated by photographers Gille Coulon and Bertrand Meunier from the Tendance Flou collective, Deicy Sanches staged and performed a piece based on the concept of mobility and the shape of the circle, in collaboration with artist Ange Kayifa.
Dancers Ange Kayifa & Deicy Sanches
Curators Gilles Coulon & Bertrand Meunier
Photographer Maurine Tric
ENVAHISSEURS, CERCLE 2
2021
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
By becoming one with the shape of the circle, the Cercles 02 performance uses equipment to be worn as clothing to create a space in which everyone is free to express themselves: dancing, ambience, shouting, filming, lighting…
For this second performance, that took place at the Palais de Tokyo, as part of Audi Talents and the Undomestic exhibition, Deicy and Teddy Sanches staged and performed a cypher, in which dancers improvise successively and/or exchange in pairs, accompanied all around by performers wearing the equipment.
Direction Teddy Sanches & Deicy Sanches
Dancers Thomas Carotine, Luisa Cerrada, Omar Cretella, Medhi Djaidani, Ornella Ekwalla, Loïc Koné, Samtwo, Deicy Sanches, Teddy Sanches, Mayvis William, Neymo & Aïdem
Roles Yasmine Benslim, Eva Carras, Marius Makoto, Rachel Marsil, Manoli Leuci, Theo Yossa, Enguerran Chauve, Kuidja Tatoua, Idirissa Cantara, Aliya Davenne & Goyo
Sound engineer Wattfutchureez
Production Audi talents
Photographer Jean-Christophe Lett
2021
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
By becoming one with the shape of the circle, the Cercles 02 performance uses equipment to be worn as clothing to create a space in which everyone is free to express themselves: dancing, ambience, shouting, filming, lighting…
For this second performance, that took place at the Palais de Tokyo, as part of Audi Talents and the Undomestic exhibition, Deicy and Teddy Sanches staged and performed a cypher, in which dancers improvise successively and/or exchange in pairs, accompanied all around by performers wearing the equipment.
Direction Teddy Sanches & Deicy Sanches
Dancers Thomas Carotine, Luisa Cerrada, Omar Cretella, Medhi Djaidani, Ornella Ekwalla, Loïc Koné, Samtwo, Deicy Sanches, Teddy Sanches, Mayvis William, Neymo & Aïdem
Roles Yasmine Benslim, Eva Carras, Marius Makoto, Rachel Marsil, Manoli Leuci, Theo Yossa, Enguerran Chauve, Kuidja Tatoua, Idirissa Cantara, Aliya Davenne & Goyo
Sound engineer Wattfutchureez
Production Audi talents
Photographer Jean-Christophe Lett
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