Jihene Slimani

I am a multidisciplinary artist who has been working in dance for 20 years in France and internationally for numerous events and institutions, and through my Cie Underground Dance Providers created in 2003, with which I have trained dancers, organized numerous events (BJCP Dance Contest), and artistic projects focused on the transmission and promotion of Clubbing Culture, the representation of multidisciplinary and multiethnic women artists with the Bastet Festival.

In parallel, I evolved for 10 years in digital communication, putting my skills in image, artistic direction and marketing to various entities (artistic, associative, institutional, television, advertising).

I hold a degree in Communication, a master's degree in International Artistic Cooperation.

I organized a cultural exchange project between the dancers of my Cie and the community of dancers in New York between 2007 and 2012.

This led me to make my 1st documentary in 2015, following the dancers of my Cie in an exploration of the Clubbing culture from Vitry sur Seine to New York.

In 2019, I joined the Paris Opera with the "Indes Galantes" staged by Clement Cogitore and choreographed by Bintou Dembelé and I have been teaching House Dance for several years as a speaker at the Juste Debout School.

Working more and more in visual (artistic direction, creative content), I decided to turn to cinema and music video and I joined the KOURTRAJMÉ film school founded by Ladj Ly, joined by Jr and Ludivine Sagnier in 2020 in the Directing/Post-production session.

Whatever the disciplines/mediums that are within my reach, the common thread of my work is the highlighting of talented individual/collective people - strong because there is still work to be done on diversity and equity and I try at my. level to contribute to this representation.