Jolie Ngemi

Guest 25/26

Jolie Ngemi is a contemporary and urban dancer, choreographer and musician. In 2013, she began a two-year training programme at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. It was there that she was discovered by the choreographer Boris Charmatz. Together they produced two pieces: Danse de nuit – about the attack on Charlie Hebdo – and 10'000 gestes, which toured in France, Brussels, London, Germany and Switzerland. In 2018 she created her first solo piece, Identity na ngayi, at the La Bâtie Festival in Geneva, which was subsequently presented in Basel, Brussels and Utrecht. In 2019, she staged several performances and workshops in the Brussels region and at the Tictac Centre. In early 2020, she was appointed as a lecturer at the Amsterdam Academy. In the same year, she collaborated on Serge Aymé Coulibaly’s new creation: Wakat.
She subsequently founded her own company, AUC Production, as well as the performing arts festival BOSANGANI, the fifth edition of which took place in Kinshasa in September 2025, bringing together European and African dancers for masterclasses, performances and panel discussions. Since 2024, she has been teaching regularly at La Manufacture on the Bachelor’s programme in contemporary dance. In June 2024, she choreographed Jounga with the students of the H cohort for their final performance.
In 2026, her piece MBOK’ELENGI was selected and presented as part of the Swiss Dance Days in Basel.