Betty Tchomanga

Eduardo Abdala

Light designer

Eduardo Abdala was born and grew up in Mozambique. With the beginning of his studies of Lighting Design he came to Portugal in 2006.

In his professional career he accompanied productions by Romeo Castellucci, Katie Mitchell, Thomas Ostermeier and others. He worked in different theaters such as Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (DE), Théâtre de l’Odéon (F), Théâtre de la Ville (F), Théâtre National de Bretagne (F), Barbican (UK), or Teatro Maria Matos (PT).

As Lighting Designer he collaborated with the company from Schaubühne in Berlin (DE), with Malavoadora from Lisbon (PT), and with Third Angel from the UK, furthermore he designed for directors like João dos Santos Martins, Calixto Neto, Betty Tchomanga, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Nicholas Mockridge, Ingo Hülsmann, Vera Mantero, João Fiadeiro and others. Besides he regularly works as lighting technician in spaces like Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE) and Berliner Festspiele (DE).

In 2012 Eduardo Abdala has decided to move and live in Berlin.

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc

Filmmaker and playwright for The Sea is History

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc lives and works in Sète.

His work as an artist, researcher, art curator and film curator explores the neglected areas of colonial and post-colonial history. His work addresses the themes of absence, dread, and the representation of violence, using methods of extraction and excavation to reinscribe silenced individuals and cultural materials back into collective history.

Since 2016, he has edited the Culture collection for the Paris-based publisher B42, and in 2021 he co-founded the publishing house Ròt-Bò-Krik.

Folly Romain Azaman

Performer and musician

Folly Romain is an artist from Benin who breathes new life into the ancestral rhythms of Voodoo. Born in Cotonou in 1997, he has been immersed in this spiritual universe since childhood, lulled by the songs, percussion and dances of his mother and the incantations of his father, both of whom are voodoo priests.

This inexhaustible source gives rise to his intimate polyrhythmic music, a spellbinding fusion of blues, jazz and improv, which combines with dance, bodily and facial expression, sensation and connection, traditional rhythms and bold modernity. His voice, at once crystalline and androgynous, weaves its way into the audience’s hearts, moving from the most tender whisper to an incantatory power, and creating an emotional wave that transcends languages. In 2021, he met and began collaborating with Betty Tchomanga as a musician, performer and dancer on A Lesson in Darkness, Decolonial (Hi)stories #Folly and Decolonial (Hi)stories #Parallel Portraits.

Mackenzy Bergile

Musician and composer

Mackenzy Bergile is a self-taught, multi-talented artist, born in Paris and based in Lorient. Drawing on his Haitian and French roots, his rich and eclectic career combines dance, music and poetry. He explores the interactions between the intimate and the political with great lucidity, freeing himself from traditional academic frameworks to develop a unique body language. His work fuses various registers of movement, notably through traditional Haitian dances, hip-hop, jazz and contemporary dance. Mackenzy’s musical work is focused on the piano and blends Baroque influences together with Voodoo resonances to create pieces that summon both history and the invisible. He has collaborated with major figures in contemporary dance, such as Emmanuel Eggermont and Boris Charmatz, and has composed music for films and dance companies. These experiences have enabled him to question the boundaries of dance and maintain his commitment to investigating the transformative dimension of art. In addition to his artistic projects, he founded the Domaine Mauricio Bergile, a research center in the heart of nature, which fuses permaculture and artistic practices. Scheduled to open in 2027, the estate will be a creative laboratory where artists and researchers can develop their projects in harmony with the environment, while exploring the links between art, nature and sustainability. He has also worked with Inès Mauricio to create Regard Sur Le Geste, an editorial object that seeks to analyze the motivations behind artistic action and provide a unique insight into the deeper meanings behind each gesture.

Marion Cachan

Production manager

Marion lives and works in Brittany.

From 2013 to 2015, she worked with the company Le Fils du grand réseau – Pierre Guillois.

Since 2015, Marion has devoted her work to supporting choreographic artists, including Simon Tanguy, Marzena Krzeminska, Gaël Sesboüé, Betty Tchomanga and Marie Desoubeaux.

In 2019, she set up the production company Aoza together with Aline Berthou, which specializes in choreographic projects.

She is also an active member of the Association of Professionals of Live Performance Administration (LAPAS), a member of the Advisory Board of the Performing Arts Center in Brittany (SVB) and an occasional instructor (University Rennes 2, Présomptions de Présences, Kerlab SVB, and the National Dance Center in Pantin).

Since 2019, Marion has helped develop projects produced by Lola Gatt (now GANG), particularly those by Betty Tchomanga.

Marie-Laure Caradec

Choreographer accompanied in delegated production

Marie-Laure Caradec, born in Brittany, trained at the CDC in Toulouse and the Isola Danza academy in Venice, before going on to collaborate with various choreographers. In recent years, she has danced in pieces by Youness Aboulakoul, Thierry Micouin, Romain Bertet and Olivier Dubois. She worked alongside Mickaël Phelippeau for the work Majorettes and joined Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre’s team for the Venice Carnival. She worked with the Lola Gatt association for three pieces that she choreographed, Cri(e)s, Off and Succession. She obtained her State Diploma in contemporary dance in 2012 at the CND in Paris, and has since led various workshops.

Tatiana Carret

Lighting designer

Tatiana trained in lighting design at the CFPTS (Professional Training Center for Performing Arts Technicians, and has worked in theaters such as Le Vivat (Armentières) and La Colline (Paris) since 2017. She joined the lighting team at the Avignon Festival in 2021, and has worked with the performance group Unanime and the Théâtre de l'Entrouvert, choreographers Flora Détraz and Betty Tchomanga, and the Avantage du Doute theater collective. Before training as a stage management, she obtained a master's degree in artistic production and audience analysis, which has shaped her desire to accompany artists. She has worked in Cairo (Egypt) for the Contemporary Image Collective, in Montreal (Quebec) for the festival Jamais Lu and in cultural rehabilitation programs in prisons in Nantes (France).

Clément Crubilé

Sound technician

Clément trained as a sound technician at the Image et Son program in Brest, after completing his studies at a music conservatory. He then spent two years in England, working and perfecting his skills on the stages of various festivals and clubs in London. He returned to his native Brittany in 2019 and has since worked for various companies, national theaters and live music venues. He works behind the scenes to find technical solutions tailored to each project and help artists bring their ideas to fruition.

Adelaïde Desseauve Aka Mulunesh

Performer

Mulunesh trained as a dancer-performer in Aurillac and Toulouse between 2013 and 2016. In 2016, her encounter with Anne Marie Van, a.k.a. Nach, led her to her discovery of and immersion into the cosmology of KRUMP culture. This in turn led to her meeting Julien Adjovi, a.k.a. Wrestler. Since 2022, she has been sharpening her skills with her FAM under the name Wrestler X, in order to hone her “character,” her language and her “foundations.”

Mulunesh will be part of Nach Van Dance Company's creation, Elles disent. She is also a performer in Lesson in Darkness and Decolonial (hi)stor #Mulunesh by Betty Tchomanga. Mulunesh has been working for the FAIRE collective since 2017 with Johanna Faye and Saïdo Lehlouh, among others.

In 2023, Mulunesh met Cherish Menzo for an upcoming creation in autumn 2025.

She is currently performing in Témoins by Saïdo Lehlouh and in Betty Tchomanga’s Decolonial (Hi)stories #Mulunesh and Decolonial (Hi)stories #Parallel Portraits.

Amparo González Sola

Performer

Amparo González Sola is an argentinian choreographer and dancer based in Amsterdam.

Her work goes from dance performances to participative projects and is influenced by her participation in feminist activism and her experience of migration. She did the master DAS Choreography (AHK, 2022).

She created “The conspiracy of forms” (2023), and “If every rock is a hole” (2022) -premiered within Spring Performing Arts Festival- and the participative project “Exploring Reciprocity” (2019-2023), among other things.

She is an associate artist with Dansateliers (2025-28), and collaborates regularly with other artists and researchers as performer and as maker. She is collaboratrice de GANG, and participated as a dancer of the piece Leçon de Ténèbres.

Emilie Godreuil

Stage manager

Emilie Godreuil is a stage manager who specializes in the technical creation of stage sets and installations in the visual arts. She graduated from the Advanced National Diploma of Visual Arts (DNSEP) in 2002 and currently lives in Brest.

Up until 2007, she worked as a technical director and production manager in the digital arts at the International Center for Video Creation (CICV), the French Association for Artistic Action (AFAA), the Gaîté Lyrique and Le Fresnoy – National Studio for Contemporary Arts.

She then worked as technical coordinator of contemporary art exhibitions and events for Lille 3000, Euralens and the Lille Palace of Fine Arts. She also worked with the association L’Entorse to coordinate the Art & Sports Festival from 2013 to 2018.

Since 2012, she has worked with Mathilde Maillard, Belinda Annaloro, Antoine Defoort, Halory Goerger and Julien Fournet for the creation, set design and tour of live performances.

Charlotte Imbault

Sound artist

Charlotte Imbault is an art critic, editor and sound artist interested in exploring the relationship between written and oral forms of expression. After serving as assistant editor of the magazine Mouvement, in 2017 she co-founded watt, a print journal that showcases dialogues with artists about their work tools. In 2018, she created What You See, a podcast about festivals, theaters and art venues. It gives voice to a plurality of people who have seen the same work, exhibition or performance, but who don’t see the same thing in it. She writes about the performing arts and gives workshops on visual experience in relation to editorial objects and radios. She also creates stereo or quadraphonic sound pieces for the stage and site-specific installations.

Dalila Khatir

Performer, artistic consultant and vocal coach

Dalila Khatir is a singer and performer. For several years, she has worked as a vocal coach, musical dramaturgy assistant and artistic consultant for works by choreographers such as Boris Charmatz, Herman Diephuis, Betty Tchomanga, David Wampach, Michel Schweizer, Thierry Micouin and, more recently, Fabrice Mazliah. She also works in the fields of improvisation, operatic and classical singing, as well as musical theater, promoting a broadened approach to voice and singing.

Stephane Monteiro

Creator, sound technician and stage manager

Stéphane Monteiro, a.k.a. XtroniK, is a musician, electro-performer and sound engineer, whose work constructs dense electronics oscillating between electronica and digital textures. In this sonic universe where noisy percussion and whistling bleep jostle together, fragmentation and defragmentation adeptly combine to create industrial ambiences that are punctuated by digital melodies. His various sound experiments have often led him to collaborate with video artists, visual artists, graphic designers, painters, choreographers and theater directors. Since 2010, he has regularly composed sound for dance. He has worked with choreographers Betty Tchomanga and Gaëlle Bourges, writing the music for pieces such as Le verrou, Un beau raté, A mon seul désir, Lascaux, Front contre front, Le bain, Conjurer la peur, Ce que tu vois, OVTR (ON VA TOUT RENDRE), Le bain, (La bande à LAURA), and AUSTERLITZ.

Yann Penaud

Sound technician

Yann studied music and percussion for fifteen years at the Brest Conservatory. This experience aroused his interest in sound-related professions, leading him to move to Paris to study sound engineering and work in this field. He has acquired a wide range of work experience, doing sound in small venues and arenas, on tours and at concerts, for both dance and theater. Since returning to Brest, he has continued his work as a sound manager, serving the companies, national stages and art spaces of Brittany.

Emma Tricard

Performer and artist’s assistant

Emma Tricard is a dancer, choreographer and speaker based in Marseille. After training with Maguy Marin and completing her studies at the HZT Berlin and the Exerce Master’s program at the ICI-CCN, she has led a choreographic research project since 2015 based on observations of and distortions between “saying” and “doing.” Her leap into this adventurous quest involves inventing dances of conjugation. She conceives of her work in the future perfect tense and playing with the causal relationships between things, thoughts, movements and natural phenomena. Emma performs in theaters, leads performative and sonic explorations in non-traditional spaces, and co-organizes Monday Feast, a performance series in Marseille.

In 2022, she collaborated with Cécile Bally at the Manège National Stage in Reims to create the science-fiction choreography Le Débordement/Die Ausschreitung. In 2023, she directed the short dance film “Or l'Oiseau” as part of a scientific research project with Joanne Clavel, a researcher in Environmental Humanities at the CNRS. She has worked as a performer and collaborator with Betty Tchomanga, the performing arts group Unanime, Jonas Chéreau, Sergiu Matis, Pau Simon, Agata Maszkiewicz, Lea Moro, DD Dorvillier and Alain Michard.

Olga Rozenblum

President

Olga Rozenblum is a program coordinator, teacher and researcher. She is co-founder of the independent art space Treize in Paris. She also co-founded the production companies red shoes and Les Volcans, through which she has supported artists with their film and exhibition projects as they seek alternative systems and economies of creation and distribution. She has taught at the National Graduate School of Art (ENSAPC) Paris-Cergy, the Parsons School of Design, the Advanced School for Art and Design (HEAD) in Geneva, and the National Institute for Advanced Studies in the Arts of the Mediterranean-Marseille and the School of Fine Arts in Marseille (INSEAMM-Beaux Arts de Marseille). In her recent work as researcher and program coordinator, she has been interested in how artists and independent experiments with little or no visibility nevertheless find ways to produce and distribute their work. Over the last several years she has organized and produced the UNdocumenta festival (a festival of disappeared films), a Guillaume Dustan film retrospective, the video magazine TVC15 together with Vaginal Davis and HEAD students, as well as taught and coordinated program based on community archives (the Grisélidis Réal Center in Geneva and Memory of Sexualities in Marseille). She has also written on the work of artists such as Romy Alizée, Maïa Izzo-Foulquier, Betty Tchomanga and Thomas Liu Le Lann. Her articles and essays have been published by Presses du Réel, Wages for wages against, Artpress and Censored magazine.

Gaël Sesboüé

Treasurer

Gaël Sesboüé, born in 1974, is a French contemporary choreographer and dancer specializing in contemporary dance.

Beginning in 1983, Gaël Sesboüé trained in post-modern dance with Maribé Demaille for nearly ten years in Crozon, Finistère (France). During this period, he also trained with major figures of contemporary dance including Jean Cébron, Mirjam Berns, Carlotta Ikeda, Dominique Bagouet, Angelin Preljocaj, Régine Chopinot and Catherine Diverrès. In 1985, he also created ten short choreographic works that were presented at various festivals. In 1990, he founded the Association Lola Gatt, before embarking on a career as a performer in 1995, collaborating on projects with Geisha Fontaine and Pierre Cottreau, Christian Rizzo, Tamara Stuart-Ewing, Christine Olivo, Christian Bourigault, Cédric Gourmelon and Xavier Le Roy.

In 2007, he devoted himself primarily to choreographic writing and to expanding the Lola Gatt Association in Brest. From 2014 to 2023, he was co-artistic director of Lola Gatt along with choreographers Marie-Laure Caradec and Betty Tchomanga. Gaël Sesboüé’s various creations have been presented at festivals such as Artdanthé, Hors-saison, Faits d'hiver, Anticodes, Agitato, Festival d’Avignon, Dañsfabrik, Kent Dancing Festival and A Domicile – Guisseny. They have also been shown in various museums and exhibition spaces, such as the Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury, the Passerelle Contemporary Art Center in Brest, the André Malraux Modern Art Museum in Le Havre, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg and the Museum of Fine Arts in Brest.

In 2024, Gaël changed careers. He now works as a board member and treasurer for the GANG association.

Paola Gilles

Secretary

Paola Gilles has been involved in multidisciplinary projects in the performing arts for the past 15 years first in production and distribution at the Festival d’Avignon, at the Odeon Theater and with Hubert Colas’ company in Marseille during the Marseille Provence festival in 2013; and for events abroad at the French Embassy in the United States. She then spent 6 years in France and abroad producing and presenting multidisciplinary shows (Silvia Costa, Théo Mercier) at the Centre Dramatique National Nanterre-Amandiers, under the direction of Philippe Quesne. She met Betty Tchomanga and discovered Aoza Production when she joined the agency Spectacle Vivant en Bretagne as artistic advisor to companies and venues. After directing the Chahuts festival in Bordeaux for a year, she now works with multidisciplinary companies such as Gisèle Vienne.

Hélène Lemounaud

Administrator

Hélène Lemounaud has worked in the cultural field for over 20 years. As a cultural mediator at the Quincaillerie in the Vieux-Marché, she has organized writing workshops, public discussions around art, and film screenings and discussions with the senior citizens of the village. She also realizes her passion for children’s literature, poetry and contemporary American literature as an independent bookseller in shops in Rennes, Cluses and Brest. As the head of press relations for these bookstores, she has promoted a book by photographer René Tanguy on Jack Kerouac’s late correspondence, the exhibition catalogue of gardener and writer Gilles Clément for his show at the Domaine de Trévarez, and a book by illustrator Laëtitia Rouxel on the communard Nathalie Lemel.

For the past six years, she has worked for the Cultural Services at the University of Western Brittany in Brest. She works alongside students to support those who show motivation in their artistic projects, and seeks to expose the disinclined to the various cultural venues of Finistère, to arouse their curiosity and to enable them to experiment with different artistic practices.

She met Gaël Sesboüé and Betty Tchomanga ten years ago in Brest, thanks to “gifts,” the dance workshops at the Quartz National Stage in Brest.