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Fatou Traoré

Fatou Traoré

Fatou Traore is an explorer of movement and sound. She has been a professional choreographer, dancer, singer and musician for more than twenty five years. She has been giving dance workshops for thirty years in various Academies and Dance Centers, as well as Circus Schools throughout Europe. She also presents a laboratory of movement aiming at everybody twice a week in Brussels. The multiple projects in various forms that she invests herself in express her incessant desire to experience a living art which creates authentic connections with dance and music.

Alternating between intimate and spectacular pieces her career as a dancer / choreographer includes Experimental Dance performances in major venues as well as intimate spaces, working with Contemporary Circus groups, and work in the Theater. She is a multi dimensional artist who can enrich her performances using the expressive arts of painting, sculpture, and costume making. She also is a musician who plays the african N’goni.

For the past five years she has been singing with, and artistically directing with Dounia Depoorter, a choral group of twenty five women called the Patshiva cie. This joyful and energetic choir travels and performs in disadvantaged areas mixing with the local populations and including them in their street performances, and in theaters. Their work can uplift a entire neighborhood bringing inspiration and confidence to many people who otherwise have very few resources.

 
 

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  • Diamond Sky Dancer – Vajrayogini Retreat

    23 May 2025 – 1 June 2025

    With: Sarah Coleman, Lama Brian Hilliard

    A 10-day retreat for advanced Vajrayana practitioners (see prerequisites below).

     
  • This Sacred Earth: An Engaged Eco-Dharma Gathering

    26 June 2025 – 3 July 2025

    With: Adam Lobel, Alex Swain, Ilaj Zaremba, Gee Guhyapati

    Honouring the creative tension between self transformation and ecological engagement as a catalyst for liberation.

     
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    5 July 2025 – 12 July 2025

    With: Otto Pichlhoefer, Tessa Racine

    The mind is the working basis for meditative practice. This one-week retreat introduces fundamental Buddhist teachings on mind, consciousness, and the development of wisdom through meditation and study.

     

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