Salia Sanou

Born in Burkina Faso, Salia Sanou took theater and African dance lessons there before joining Mathilde Monnier's company in 1993. Since then, he has been leading projects in France and Africa. He founded the company Salia nï Seydou with Seydou Boro in 1995. Winners of the second Choreographic Meetings of Africa and the Indian Ocean, they received the RFi Danse Discovery Prize in 1998. From 2003 to 2008, Salia Sanou was an associate artist at the Scène nationale de Saint-Brieuc, before being in residence at the Center National de la Danse in Pantin from 2009 to 2010. In 2011, he founded the company Mouvements perpetuels located in Montpellier. He created Beyond Borders (2012), Clameur des arènes (2014) for the Montpellier Danse Festival and Doubaley the mirror in 2013. Du Désir d´horizons (2016), is inspired by the workshops he led during 3 years in Malian refugee camps in northern Burkina Faso. With Seydou Boro, he creates and directs the biennial Dialogues de corps in Ouagadougou as well as La Termitière, a choreographic development center opened in 2006. He is the author of Afrique, danse contemporaine, a work illustrated by the photos of Antoine Tempé and co-edited by the Cercle d'Art and the Center National de la Danse - Pantin (2008)