bio noel

Kettly Noël (*1968 in Port-au-Prince) joined Patrick Lacroix' company at the age of 17, which meant strict training eight hours a day, every day of the week. She grew up in Creolian Haiti and has followed the line linking Black cultures around the Atlantic throughout her life. In the early 1990s she set off for Paris, where she established her first very own company. In 1996, she founded a charitable at project in Benin and worked with young people in the poor districts in Cotonou. She immersed herself in an animistic universe in her first choreography Dans la Cour in 1996. At the same time, Kettly Noël investigated the roots of modern African dance. In 1999 she went to Mali where she once again established her own ensemble. In 2002, she founded a choreographic centre in the capital city of Bamako. She organised a dance festival at the centre in 2004.