Doriane Mbenoun was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1999 to Cameroonian parents. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany. She started dancing at the age of six and later took singing lessons and learned to play several instruments. She studied contemporary dance. She researches the movement of traditional African dances with the aim of documenting and archiving the essence of the dance in order to anchor the knowledge of the ancestors in the collective memory across generations.

Her dance practice focuses on improvisation and the development of her own movement language that reflects her experiences and cultural heritage.

Show / Workshop

• Black Chroni-Queens