"Rite of passage - Solo II

Recognized as one of the pioneers of hip hop in France, Bintou Dembélé began dancing in 1985. Co-founder of the Ykanji and Ladyside companies, she also performed with Aktual Force and at the Théâtre contemporain de la danse in Paris, before founding Rulité in 2002, with which she staged shows such as Z. H. (2014), S/T/R/A/T/E/S – Quartet (2016), Le Syndrome de l’initié.e (2018), presented in France and around the world. She is developing collaborations with academics such as Noémie N’Diaye, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Chicago, and Isabelle Launay, University Professor in the Dance Department at Université Paris VIII.

In 2019, she joins the Opéra de Paris, where she choreographs Les Indes galantes, an opera-ballet directed by Clément Cogitore and conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón.

In 2020, she is one of 10 international artists invited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou-Metz. In 2021, she will be a guest artist at the Villa Médicis – Académie de France in Rome and at the Villa Albertine in Chicago.

In 2022, she was awarded the SACD (Société des auteurs et des compositeurs dramatiques) Choreography Prize.