“Danser Ensemble…” presents – Fatou Cissé
Our final dance artist representing Senegal for our “Danser Ensemble…” Senegal/Wales 
collaborative dance project is Fatou Cisse. This Go Digital project is a partnership between The Successors of the Mandingue and CIE Fatou Cisse supported by British Council Wales. Here’s Fatou’s unique interpretation of the piece for solos composed by N’famady Kouyate, filmed at Le Grande Théâtre de Dakar in Senegal by Mor Ndoye Ndiaye.
BIO:
Born in Dakar, Fatou Cissé began her career at the training center, Manhattan-Dance-School, in Dakar directed by her father Ousmane Noël Clissé, where she trained in modern Afro Jazz and at the ballet Guineen Bougarabou training in traditional dance.
She has participated in several master classes with different choreographers from the continent. In 2000, she was involved in the creation of the Compagnie 1er Temps of which she was a permanent performer and assistant to the choreographer Andreya Ouamba. She created her first solo Xalaat (thought) in 2003 and obtained a scholarship to attend various improvisation and composition workshops at the Charleroi Choreographic Center in Brussels, and at the National Dance Center in Paris.
She has travelled all over the world for meetings, workshops, and shows.
As a result of these experiences, she set up her company in 2011, and decided to work and question the space of women, especially in Senegal.
She has also choreographed and and co-written several projects, choreographic and performative.
She created the concept “Les arts dans la rue” in Ouakam en Mouv’ment in 2019, an urban installation and performance.
Then in 2020, the second edition “The city in movement” Ouakam / Grand Dakar / Medina Fass.
