Khoudia Touré

Senegalese street dancer and choreographer. In 2004, she started her professional training in hip hop and house dance, moving between Paris, New York and the UK. In 2012, she decided to return to Senegal with the commitment to enriching dance in Africa. Two years later she opened in Dakar a dance school, the Sunu Street Dance Project, funded by the European Union, and created the non-profit Association "Maggando" to help promote urban dance in Senegal. As a freelance dancer, she performed across the world and won numerous international street dance competitions, such as Juste Debout and the Hip-Hop Games Concept, where she improvised the final duet with Mehdi Baki. In 2018 she started a two-year workshop with Crystal Pite, after being selected as the Protégée for Dance in the Rolex Mentoring Art Project. Alongside Pierre-Claver Belleka, she is choreographer and founding member of "La Mer Noire Company". In 2020, she created "When the night comes", her first original work, performed in Cape Town, South Africa.