For Kaïsha Essiane (France/Gabon), her body is a revealer of situations, a tool of excess that confronts the boundaries of every order. Originally from Gabon and a member of the urban hip-hop scene, she began her career under the mentorship of choreographer Hardo Kâ. She then went on to study at the Ecole des Sables in Senegal, followed by the Exerce Master at ICI-CCN. She works as a dancer for Taoufiq Izeddiou, Nadia Beugré and Mathilde Monnier, and creates choreographies between France and Gabon that are intensely linked to her personal experiences.

What can you do with a body that's slipping away? After XXL, in which she asserted herself as a dancer and celebrated the grace and power of her forms, Kaïsha Essiane continues her investigation by focusing no longer on self-assertion, but on the shadow it casts. A body deprived of momentum and energy, a subject that retracts, an experience of emptiness where the injunctions to productivity seize up. While the song by The Shirelles - mama said there'll be days like this - resonates like a magic formula, a choreography of the kitchen is sketched out, as if to extract the unsuspected strength "from the things in my body” (Les choses de mon corps).

Open to all, with no pre-requisites, this monthly workshop for adult amateurs is an opportunity to meet, through their work, the artists who are involved with ICI this season. The dance club invites you to experiment a wide range of practices, creative processes and warm-up rituals, with a focus on the precision of choreographic writing.