Betty Tchomanga

Born in 1989 to a Cameroonian father and a French mother, Betty Tchomanga began her training in 2004 at the Conservatoire of Bordeaux, then with Alain Gonotey. In 2007, she joined the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers under the direction of Emmanuelle Huynh. Her career as a performer began in 2009, through collaborations with Emmanuelle Huynh, Alain Buffard, Fanny de Chaillé, Gaël Sesboüé, Herman Diephuis, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, and Nina Santes. Alongside her artistic practice, she studied literature at Université Paris 3, completing a Master’s degree in 2014. From 2019 onwards, she has focused on choreographic creation, developing a body of work centred on transgression, bodily limits, and hybrid forms. She explores states of physical and vocal transformation through an intense engagement with breath, body, and voice. Since Mascarades (2019), she has pursued research into Vodou practices and representations shaped by colonial history. Her works include Madame (2016), Mascarades (2019), Leçons de ténèbres (2022), and the series Histoire(s) décoloniale(s) (2023–2026), presented notably within a university tour organized by the Festival d’Automne. She is an associate artist at Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris and at CDCN Danse à tous les étages in Brittany.