Olé KHAMCHANLA

Originally from Laos, Olé Khamchanla grew up in France and discovered hip-hop dance in 1990. Then he trained with various dancers and choreographers such as Farid Azzout, Gabin Nuissier and Storm for hip-hop dance, Fred Bendongue and master Beja Flore for capoeira, Abou Lagraa and Monica Cazadei for contemporary dance.

Little by little, he finds his style, a way of dancing which is his own and which allows him to assert himself on the dance scene.

He was a dancer and co-choreographer with the A'CORPS company from 1997 to 2010, in which he created several shows that set his creative mark. This 1st company allowed him to affirm his status as a choreographer, notably through his first trio "We are all...", created in 2003 on his return from Italy.

In 2006, he went to Laos and Thailand to learn traditional dances and create his first solo, "Kham...", a return to his roots which offered him the opportunity to deepen and refine his choreographic language.

In January 2010, he created the first international dance festival in Laos, FANG MAE KHONG / FMK (Listen to the Mekong), which aims to promote and facilitate the circulation of artists from Southeast Asia, while allowing the exchange with European and international artists.

Since then, through the KHAM company created in 2011, Olé Khamchanla has multiplied international cooperation actions in Asia (residencies, training, creations, transmission), and continues to enrich his choreographic vocabulary and the circulation of cultures and works between France and the Asian region.

The artistic approach developed today by Olé Khamchanla is that of a contemporary creation freed from the codes of the dances that he hybridizes, of an incessant search for the crossing of dances, cultures, and sometimes of different artistic disciplines, with which , throughout his works, he explores different themes of the human race, his failings, his fears, his disguises, his interactions with the group...

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