I am made up of several cultures. Like the cans, sometimes the balance between these two worlds is perilous. It is not always easy to manage my different cultural imprints.

There was this woman I met who said to me: "You have your head in the clouds". It made me smile, because in other circumstances people might have told me that I was very serious and down to earth. I think our identity changes depending on the moment and who is watching us. And that is fine with me. All of it is me!

I am very creative, I love DIY. I invent things using recycled materials. Using this method, I do workshops with children, together we create lots of things, and I really enjoy passing on my knowledge to them.

This globe is not the world as it is, it is my personal geography. Each element represents something important in my life, something contributing to shape who I am. Everything is there, nothing is missing.

There are all these pictures that I am thinking of, that I have in my head, and that I need to bring to life. I have just arrived in this town and I feel a bit like someone from another planet, with ideas that might seem strange...

When I was very young, my brothers had motorbikes that I borrowed from them. I loved riding them, the feeling of speed. When I was ten years old I got into a car accident with my mother and got really scared. I do not know if it had anything to do with it, but I never got my driving licence. Now I am scared when other people drive me. Maybe this portrait will help me to leave my fear behind?

I love cooking. Sometimes I get into my kitchen like a tortoise gets into its shell when it wants to protect itself. If there are people I do not wish to see, poof, I disappear!

I am just like a sponge: I absorb people's life stories. It fascinates and moves me, so much so that I have made it my work. I have designed my mask like the traditional masks back home. Listening to other people's stories is also what drives me to look at my own history.

Amala Dianor. My story is one of discrepancies. In relation to my origins, in relation to my dance too. I started from a point that I shifted so that I could make it my own, so that it evolved towards something else, towards new paths, constantly adapting to the world. 

Sylvain Prunenec. One appreciates a territory differently when taking the time to cross it on foot. For a few years, hiking has taken an important place in my work. I like to walk through wild places, but also through 'in-between' areas where nature and civilization overlap. It seems to me that my dances are likewise: civilized but also a little 'wild'.

Clarisse Chanel. Like water, the body freezes, sinks and evaporates. Bones, muscles, veins and lungs rustle like the leaves of a tree caught in the wind. The continuous movement of nature inspires us to move, to set ourselves in motion and modulate the flows, to work on immobility and its opposite, to envision dance and the body itself.

Jean-Baptiste André. Collaboration and the question of transversality are very important to me and definitely a part of my creative process. Text, words and paper mixed with the body’s expression generate hybridities that give rise to new forms. Each encounter is an opportunity to take a new path, to apprehend what is unfamiliar to us and find ourselves transformed by it.

La Grive, Clémentine Maubon and Bastien Lefèvre. The “French national team of Contemporary Dance" explores the great bridges and small gaps between sport and dance. It is an excuse to get moving and to question notions of competition, records and rewards...

Hamid Ben Mahi. I have lots of photos of myself as a child wearing Indian headdresses. It is symbolic. When we played, I was spontaneously more Indian than Cowboy... I have always sided with those whose land was occupied. That naturally found its way into my dancing.

Valérie Frossard. Photography is my diving suit: it allows me to move around in all kinds of environments, to meet people from different backgrounds. To capture their light and convey it through my work, like a facilitator, I always bear in mind that you can only see well with your heart.