Ismaël Mouaraki

Of French and Moroccan origins, Ismaël Mouaraki discovered his choreographic language while working with choreographer Xavier Lot during his residence at the André Malraux Cultural Center. In 2003, he founded the company Destins Croisés, with which he developed a body of choreographic works that reflect his desire to bring to life the infinite facets of humanity through dance. His repertoire includes Le sacre de Lila, Phénoména, La question des fleurs, oZe, and Lien(s).

As a self-taught choreographer, dancer and teacher, he has worked on the development of dance through choreographic commissions in Canada and Europe, as a teacher in professional training centers such as the École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal, or alongside renowned choreographers such as Xavier Lot, Tony Masckott, the Accrorap company, Philippe Découflé, Hélène Blackburn and Dominique Porte.

From his first steps in hip-hop to the presentation of his works in renowned international spaces such as the Agora de la danse in Montreal, the Lincoln Center for the Arts in New York, the PAMS in Seoul or the Internationale Tanzmesse nrw in Düsseldorf, Ismaël Mouaraki presents a form of dance that is a vector of social phenomena and the human condition, a research process to discover the imprints left by our cultural and social environment, which inevitably structure our bodies.

In 2019, he is co-recipient of the Prix Envol awarded by the Prix de la danse de Montréal and the Conseil des arts de Montréal ex aequo with the company Tentacle Tribe, which values the cultural diversity of the Montreal dance community.