L’Homme rare

Born in Ivory Coast, Nadia Beugré made her first appearance in 1995 as a member of the Dante Theatre. Two years later, she became a founding member of Béatrice Kombé’s groundbreaking, all-female dance ensemble, TchéTché, with whom she toured for years to critical acclaim across Africa, Europe and North America.

Following a training at Germaine Acogny’s Ecole des sables in Senegal, she joined in 2009 Ex.e.r.ce., Mathilde Monnier’s programme for talented, up-and-coming choreographers at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier. She was soon staging productions of her own, including the still-touring solo Quartiers libres (‘Free Rein’) in 2012.

Her first group piece, Legacy premiered at the La Bâtie festival in Geneva in 2015 and has also been performed at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, among other events. After Tapis Rouge (2017) and Roukasskaas Club (2019), Beugré presented L’Homme rare (2020), an all-male quintet performance, premiered at Montpellier danse.

The same year, she directed choreography for Atem, a musical piece of the Darmstadt’s Staatstheater.

In 2023, she premiered two pieces drawing a portrait of an Ivorian youth in fire: the duet Filles-Pétroles and Prophétique (on est déjà né.es) for 6 performers.

Beugré also performs in works by fellow choreographers, such as Seydou Boro, Alain Buffard, Dorothée Munyaneza, Bernardo Montet, Boris Charmatz or in 2022 Robyn Orlin.

Nadia Beugré is associate artist to the Briqueterie in Vitry-sur-Seine (France, 2021-2023) and to ICI CCN de Montpellier Occitanie (2023-24). In 2023 she was awarded the SACD Prize for New Choreographic talent.

Nadia Beugré has founded her own dance company in Montpellier Libr’Arts, a platform for production, touring but also training between France and Ivory Coast.

Born in Beirut in 1986, Nadim began his training in theatre and dance in Lebanon. Arrived in France at the age of 17, he continued his university studies in Economics, then branching out to study Performing Arts at the University of Nice UNSA and dance at the ESDC Rosella Hightower dance school in Cannes.

He also joined the intensive summer training at the PARTS school in Brussels.

Transmission and pedagogy are at the heart of his practice and his regularly leading workshops in Egypt, Lebanon, Greece, France and Germany.

As a performer, he collaborates with choreographers Blanca Li (2011 & 2016), , then 2016, Nancy Naous since 2013 or Radhouane El Meddeb (2020). He currently performs in Fouad Boussouf’s latest creation, Oüm.

As an actor, Nadim has starred in several films d’auteur in Egypt and France. Among them are Sous le ciel d’Alice (Under Alice’s Sky) by Chloé Mazlo, with Wajdi Mouawad and Alba Rohrwacher (2019) or Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day by Mohammad Shawky Hassan.

Born in 1984 in a fishing village in Mali, Daouda Keita joined the dance section of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multi Média (CAMM) in Bamako in 2009.

Winner of several competitions organized by the CAMM, he creates in 2012 his first solo, He Allah, presented in Mali (Festival Dense Bamako Dance), then in Tunis and Gothenburg.

In 2014, Keita was awarded the Institut français’ Visa pour la création programme for his solo Moi, Daouda Keita? in collaboration with the Briqueterie / CDC du Val-de-Marne.

In 2016-2017, he creates Kuma Ka Ca with Adiara Traoré.

2017 marked the foundation in Bamako of his own dance company, Famu Danse, Understanding dance in Bambara. With the company, he has developed a series of programmes of dance research, training and creation around the exceptional capacities of the hearing impaired in movement and expression. Daouda Keita is also one of the founding members of the Malian artist cooperative, Le fil.

A performer, Daouda Keita has worked with Alexandra Pirici (Aggregate, 2019) with whom he will present a new project in 2022 at the Venice Biennale.

Other collaborations include Getanztes Gluck with Melanie Alexander for the Tanzhaus Zurich (2019).

Daouda is currently working on his next solo Ficksion, which has benefited from the 2021 Résidanses programme of the Institut français Paris.

Born in 1982 in Abidjan Ivory Coast, Marius Moguiba began training in 1995 with the traditional dance company Danté Théâtre. In 1997 he met Béatrice Kombé and joined the Tchetché company.

One year later, he joined Massidy Adiatou’s N’Soleh company, which won the first prize at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques de l’Afrique in Angola. In 2004, he moved to Mali to collaborate with Kettly Noël’s Donko Seko company. With her, he performed the duet Ti Chèlbè which won the RFI-danse 2003 Prize and the 3rd prize at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques de l’Afrique et de l’Océan Indien.

Throughout his career, he trained as a dancer and choreographer through workshops and masterclasses with renowned artists: Karima Mansour, Augusto Cuvilas, Moeketsi Koena, Salia Sanou, Seydou Boro, Carolyn Carlson, Eric Lamoureux, Germaine and Patrick Acogny, Wim Vandekeybus or Vincent Mantsoe…

Since 2014, Marius has worked with French director David Bobée, notably on the plays Lucretia Borgia (2014), Paris (2016), The Bloody Nun opera (2017), Peer Gynt (2018) and Lucrèce Borgia (2022).

A multidisciplinary and self-taught artist from Montpellier, Lucas Nicot started as a teenager with singing and beatboxing, composing his own songs. In 2009, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in audiovisual cinema. Two years later he joined the group Oz Corporation as a beatboxer while studying psychology and teaching.

As a composer, he regularly collaborates with performing art groups, including the Esplumeoir collective for A sorpresa de Chiclete for and the circus Liluna company, while developing his own work.

In 2016, he creates MECAVOLIC, a unique musical project: Triangle, a first EP  is released in 2018. Since then, MECAVOLIC has performed in different festivals in France: the Château Perché Festival, La Moba, Victoire 2, the Festiv’Althen… It wins the Homework prize of Kiwi Records and is a finalist of the Orizon Sud springboard in 2019.

In 2017, Lucas Nicot also joined the group Cosmyte with whom he toured abroad, between India, Russia, China and Switzerland. In 2019, Cosmyte signed with Hadra Records.

Born in 1988 in Côte d’Ivoire, Eric Nebié trained at the Irène Tassembedo dance school and holds a master’s degree in choreographic study, research and performance from the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier in collaboration with the Université Paul Valery III de Montpellier.

His personal work includes two pieces, Obscure clarté, 2nd prize at the Montpellier Danse pour  competition, and special Prize at the SIMPLY THE BEST competition (Burkina Faso), and “SENS INTERDIT”, for which he received a Visa pour la Création fellowship.

As a performer, Nebié worked with  Irène Tassembedo, Olivia Granville and  Tidiane N’diaye and danced in Atem (Souffle) by Nadia Beugré, a Darmstad Staastheater commission.