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Olé KHAMCHANLA (Olé)

SAINT BARTHELEMY LE PLAIN
okhamchanla@kham.fr
Dance
Artist (writer/performer/filmmaker/visual artist etc), Choreographer
Capacity building for arts sector, Economic opportunity, Healing / Wellbeing
Meeting Point 2025
FANG MAE KHONG International Dance Festival, Laos; FANGLAO Dance Company in Vientiane, Laos; FANGLAO Studio, Vientiane, Laos; LEI DANCE THEATER Company in Sinshu, Taiwan; Want to Dance Festival in Taipei, Taiwan; New Dance in Asia Festival in Deagu, South-Korea; Akita-Oduru Festival in Akita, Japan; Cont.Act Festival, Singapore; DanceXchange Biennale, Hong Kong; Hong-Kong Street Dance Development Academy, Hong-Kong
Originally from Laos, Olé Khamchanla is a dancer and choreographer grew up in France, and develop a choreographic vocabulary freed from the codes of the dances he hybridizes from hip-hop, traditional, and contemporary.
In January 2010, he direct the first international dance festival in Laos, FANG MAE KHONG / FMK (Listen to the Mekong), co-organized by Fanglao Dance company and his compagnie Kham, which aims to promote and facilitate the circulation of Southeast Asian artists while allowing exchange with European and international artists.
Since then, through the KHAM company created in 2011, Olé Khamchanla has multiplied international cooperation actions in Asia (residencies, training, creations, transmission), and continues to enrich his choreographic vocabulary and the circulation of cultures and works between France and the Asian region.
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