Opéra de Bordeaux, Théâtre National de Chaillot,CCN de La Rochelle.And a company, since 2006.
On stage since 1994. The company came twelve years later.
First stage in , at the , with the , for Verdi’s . Then the Théâtre National Bordeaux Aquitaine under Jean-Louis Thamin, Anthony Egéa’s Compagnie Rêvolution, and eight years alongside with Compagnie Hors Série — where he became assistant choreographer in 2005, for the Ballet de Lorraine.
From 2009 to 2012, dancer at the with , in and in the opera . Since 2013, dancer at the with — , , — and the company’s referent for passing pieces on. Between 2008 and 2010 he trained hip hop dance teachers for the , in Pantin and Lyon.
He founded in 2006. He has signed a dozen pieces there, and danced through some thirty creations counting other people’s — from Bordeaux to Boston, Bogotá, Beijing and Tel Aviv. International WDSF judge and federal judge for the French Dance Federation for Olympic breaking.
His work starts from the body as an archive: lineage and exile, the pack, fire.
Growing new branches on hip hop dance.
He discovered hip hop in and choreographed his first shows in Aquitaine. Alongside it he trained in African dance, jazz and salsa. It is that crossing, rather than any one school, that gives his movement its recognisable signature.
For twenty years the research has turned on : classical choir with and Éliane Lavail’s Ensemble Vocal d’Aquitaine, live music with and , and flamenco for a piece now in the making.
The other thread is . , , then : the memory of the Senegalese tirailleurs, uprooting, what one body hands on to the next.
The monarch butterfly takes four generations to cover the eleven thousand kilometres between it and its land. ; each one advances and hands on. That is the very structure of the piece — and the way this work looks at identity.
Today I know that I am the third butterfly. The one who will let the fourth reach what I will call the promised land.
Babacar Cissé, La dernière danse du Monarque
1st SACD Beaumarchais prizeÊtre et renaître
Third part of a triptych on wolves, after and . The piece is built on a parallel with the monarch butterfly, which takes four generations to reach its land. Babacar Cissé becomes in turn his grandfather, a Senegalese tirailleur conscripted while he was a farmer; his father, who left for the French dream; then himself, born in France and questioned about his identity. The fourth butterfly is his daughter.
A piece on Carl Orff’s composition, created during the companionship with the Théâtre du Figuier Blanc in Argenteuil. It also exists as a residency version, passed on to amateurs or to a group of students, as an excerpt or in full.
A dialogue between dance and percussion played live. Created for , in February 2025.
What drives us and what binds us. What makes us the individual — the flame — and the collective — the fire. This fire that destroys, that warms, that protects. This fire at the centre of the village, around which the story is told and the present is made, together.
Seven minutes. Created for the Festival Traces Contemporaines in Cahors.
“There is not one but exiles; journeys sometimes forced, sometimes chosen, sometimes geographical and physical, but most often inner and spiritual.” The piece crosses these successive exiles and keeps returning to the same question —
Some know the pain of leaving a native land, others the hope of somewhere better. Are we not all, intrinsically, exiles — uprooted from a place within ourselves, from our childhood, from a part of us that life has led us to cover over, forget, leave behind?
A spell of unplanned creation, from a few hours to three days, between artists from different disciplines — dancers, musicians, photographers, visual artists — gathered around a word or a theme. Like a laboratory: they exchange, they propose, they experiment. A filmmaker shoots, and a trace remains that the host venue can share.
Pieces created and performed. They are not offered for touring as they stand.
Weekly workshops in dance schools and in schools, short introductions, training for teachers, and creation residencies mixing professionals and amateurs — the , opened in 2019 to artists from different disciplines.
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