Hendrickx Ntela

Congo-born dancer, choreographer and teacher from Liège Hendrickx Ntela practices several styles of urban dance. Ntela was one of the first Belgian krumpers to create performances in which krump plays a central role. She organized various battles such as the Ch’eza Street Battle x EBS at the Théâtre national in Brussels, which has opened the Belgian qualification for the krump world championship since 2018. Ntela presented her first piece To be a slave at Zinnema and KVS during the Lezarts Danses Urbaines festival. She is the founder of the Drickx Konzi collective, who are members of One Nation and the Gully Fusion collective. In 2018, she created Beyond with Pierre Anganda, a piece dealing with the boundary between reality and imagination by installing a character in two bodies. In 2019, she joined the tremplin danses hip hop training program and became a choreographer and performer for the piece Au Fil du temps by the Corpeaurelles company. That same year, she was a trainer for the Nuits de la Danse festival in Dakar, where she presented the first stage of her creation Blind. In 2020, she created Fusion with Joëlle Sambi, a performance to be presented at the Avignon Festival in 2021. Ntela became associate artist at the Théâtre national de Bruxelles and presented Blind in February 2022. Blind has already been performed in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Cameroon. In 2023, she performed in Mimi’s Shebeen by Alesandra Seutin.

“Krump is an invitation to explore the limits of our bodies, to express our deepest emotions through movement, and to create an authentic connection with ourselves and others. We’ll focus on the connection between movement and creativity, exploring how each movement can become a story, an emotion or a metaphor for our experiences. We’ll learn to use our bodies as instruments of expression, developing awareness of each muscle, each joint, and combining them to create fluid, dynamic sequences. We’ll share this moment and evolve together, pushing back the boundaries of krump and discovering new territories of expression and movement.”