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Jolie Ngemi is a contemporary and urban dance performer, choreographer and musician. In 2011, she collaborated with Ula Sickle and Yann Leguay on the solo Jolie, which premiered in South Korea (Seoul), followed by tours of Belgium, France, Holland, Poland and Austria. In 2012, she was invited to represent women artists at the New York live arts festival.
In 2013, she began a two-year training course at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. She was then spotted by choreographer Boris Charmatz, and together they produced two shows: Danse de nuit – about the Charlie Hebdo attack, and 10 000 gestes, which toured France, Brussels, London, Germany and Switzerland.
In 2018, she created a first solo Identity na ngayi at La Bâtie – Festival de Genève. This performance was also presented in Basel, Brussels and Utrecht.
In 2019, she will give several performances and workshops in the Brussels region and at the Tictac centre. At the beginning of 2020, she was hired as a teacher at the Amsterdam Academy. That same year, she took part in Serge Aymé Coulibaly’s new creation Wakat.
She went on to found her own company, AUC Production, and the performing arts festival BOSANGANI, which held its second edition in August 2022 in Kinshasa, bringing together European and African dancers for master classes, performances and round tables.