Soa Ratsifandrihana (Choreographer/Performer), born in 1994, trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. She has worked with artists such as James Thiérrée, Salia Sanou, and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, notably interpreting the iconic Violin Phase solo in Fase, a performance highlighted by The New York Times as one of the best dances of 2019. In 2021, Soa created her first solo, g r oo v e, which has toured internationally with 70+ performances. The work explores groove, improvisation, and diasporic influences, combining movement and sound. Her group piece, Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna (2024), investigates the relationship between choreography, narrative, and music through a collective lens. Her work explores cultural complexity, collective processes, and the poetic qualities of movement.

Sylvain Darrifourcq (Percussionist, Multi-instrumentalist, Improviser & Composer), was born in 1979 and trained as a classical percussionist. He opts late for the drums, discovers rock, jazz and improvised music. A recognized figure of this generation of improvisers curious about borders, he is a musician in great demand. He has collaborated with many French, European and American personalities such as Joëlle Léandre, Joachim Kühn, Tony Malaby, Michel Portal, Louis Sclavis, Marc Ducret, Andrea Parkins, Akosh S, Kit Downes… In 2009, he obtained a “Victoire du Jazz” with the Emile Parisien Quartet, of which he was the drummer for more than 10 years. Over the course of human and musical encounters, his attraction to current forms of creation becomes clearer and pushes him to create his own festival in the company of singer / double bass player Elise Dabrowski: the DA festival. Passionate about questions of temporality, space and rupture in music, he now creates a very personal language, built around the notions of “poly-speed”, “physical quality” and the mechanization of the sound gesture. Thus are born his own projects MILESDAVISQUINTET!, IN LOVE WITH and TENDIMITE. His research leads him to question the plastic dimension of his productions. In 2019, together with Nicolas Canot, he gave birth to the FIXIN ecosystem – a set of projects ranging from sound installation to performance – featuring digitally controlled motors in a minimalist and immersive light scenography. He also collaborates with composers Karl Naegelen, Guillaume Hermen; the visual artist Zimoun; the choreographers Soa Ratsifandrihana, Liz Santoro and the author Françoise Dô. Curious about the psychoacoustic consequences of his work, he has now turned to science, creating hybrid projects with music cognition researchers Clément Canonne (IRCAM, CNRS) and Thomas Wolff (European Central University). In 2023, he created HECTOR Editions with the aim of publishing books with scientific content and knowledge sharing, and published the book 20,000 WORDS co-written with Antoine Le Bousse.

Alban Murenzi (Producer/Guitarist) goes by his stage name: Halibab Matador. A blaze that comes from his childhood when he rapped with Fabien Leclercq («Le Motel»). He is also producer and guitarist of the Belgian band YellowStraps, a young trio from Braine-l’Alleud formed around the Murenzi brothers. YellowStraps proposes a vaporous music on the borders of lounge and trip-hop. Through his musical journey, Alban meets a nice bunch of artists such as Tessa, Le Motel, Halehan, Roméo Elvis, Primero… Let yourself be carried away by this tsunami of chillitude.

Coco Petitpierre (Costume Desginer) is a visual artist, costume designer and director. Since the early 2000s, she has collaborated with numerous choreographers and directors on more than one hundred creations as a costume designer, notably, Zerep company, Phillipe Quesne, Olivier Martin-Salvan, Alban Richard, Odile Duboc, Xavier Le Roy… Under the name Clédat & Petitpierre, she develops multifaceted work together with Yvan Clédat (shows, performances, sculpture…) in which the bodies of the two artists are regularly brought into play. The works of Clédat & Petitpierre have been presented for twenty years in art centres, museums, festivals and theatres, in France and around fifteen other countries.

Marie-Christine Soma (Lighting Designer), after studying phisophy and classical literature, turned towards the lighting profession, thanks to a meeting with Henri Alekan. Over the years, she has created lighting for Marie Vayssière, François Rancillac, Alain Milianti, Jean-Paul Delore, Michel Cerda, Éric Vigner, Arthur Nauzyciel, Catherine Diverrès, Marie- Louise Bischofberger, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Jacques Vincey, Frédéric Fisbach, Niels Arestrup, Éléonore Weber, Alain Ollivier, Laurent Gutmann, Daniel Larrieu, Alain Béhar, Jérôme Deschamps, Salia Sanou… In 2001, she began collaborating with Daniel Jeanneteau. From 2008, they have worked together on a number of theatre productions: L’Affaire de la rue de Lourcine, Feux, Ciseaux, papier, and Trafic. In 2010, she adapted and directed Les Vagues at Vitry then at La Colline where she was associate artist, working with Thomas Ostermeier (Les Revenants, Bella Figura, La Mouette). In recent years, she has created the lighting for Innocence (Comédie Française), Andreas and Trilogie du Revoir (Avignon Festival), La Règle du jeu (Comédie Française), Der Zwerg (Opéra de Lille), and staged La Pomme dans le noir (Maison de la Culture de Bobigny). Since 2016, she is Associate Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Paris10-Nanterre.