Nadia Beugré

was born in Ivory Coast and debuted in 1995 as a member of the Dante Theatre. Two years later, she was a founding member of Béatrice Kombé’s innovative female dance ensemble TchéTché, with whom she toured for years to critical acclaim in Africa, Europe and North America. After training at Germaine Acogny’s École des Sables in Senegal, in 2009 she joined Ex.e.r.ce, Mathile Monnier’s programme for talented emerging choreographers at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier. She soon began creating her own productions, including Quartiers libres, which has been touring since 2012. Her first collective work, Legacy, premiered at the La Bâtie festival in Geneva in 2015 and was presented at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, among others. After Tapis Rouge (2017), Roukasskaas Club (2019) and L’Homme rare (2020), in 2023, Beugré created Filles-Pétroles and Prophétique (on est déjà né.es), two works that portray the Ivorian youth on fire. In the same year, she received the SACD Prize for New Choreographic Talent. Beugré also performs in the works of fellow choreographers such as Seydou Boro, Dorothée Munyaneza, Bernardo Montet, Rémy Héritier, Boris Charmatz and Robyn Orlin. In 2020, with Virginie Dupray, she co-founded the Libr’Arts dance company, a platform based in Montpellier focusing on production, touring and training, developing projects and programmes between France and Ivory Coast.