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.