This conference will be held by Raïssa Leï who is director of North-Africa and Middle-East dances groupe Kif-Kif Bledi which is based in Paris.

Raïssa Leï is Amazigh (Berber) from a Zenet tribe from East of Morocco. She is a versatile dancer practicing, performing and teaching both North-African dances and Waacking.

She created more than 12 years ago her own fusion mixing North-African Amazigh dances with hiphop and clubbing dances.

Context

Raïssa Leï shared for years international stages and festivals with plenty of fusion dancers from different styles or formats created in the USA: FCBD, Salimpour, ex-Tribal Fusion, Gothic fusion, Fantasy fusion...and many more.

As a descendant of an Amazigh tribe she has always wondered if the dancers were aware of the symbols and importance of the elements they borrowed from the Amazigh culture in a decontextualized way: Ouchem (tribal marks), outfits, jewelry, music, amazigh / arabic words, muslim first…