Yassmine Benchrifa

Yassmine Benchrifa is a Moroccan dancer and choreographer working at the intersection of hip-hop and contemporary dance. After discovering hip-hop at the age of 12, she began training in contemporary dance in 2017 with Taoufiq Izeddiou. In 2018, she joined NAFASS, the first contemporary dance school in Morocco. In 2019, she created her first choreographic work, Her Life. In 2024, she won first prize at the TAKLIF contemporary dance competition in Marrakech. In 2025, she created her first professional solo, INCENDIA. Her work explores questions of identity, the relationship between the individual and the collective, and the connections between body, memory, and territory. She develops an approach that brings hip-hop and contemporary dance practices into dialogue.

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MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis
octoberoct 24 – 25

Yassmine Benchrifa
Incendia

Portrait Mosaïque — Ce qui traverse les corpsDance

Yassmine Benchrifa explores the transitions that punctuate a life and the transformations which shape an identity. The Moroccan artist discovered hip-hop when she was 12 years old, and was captivated by the expressivity and raw energy of this urban culture. Later on, she was accepted at Nafass, Morocco’s first school of contemporary dance. This first solo, which was nominated at the Taklif entrance exam in Marrakech, was inspired by her story. With writing of a sensitive and instinctive nature, she sheds light upon the successive states of a body swept up in the continuous flow of a lifetime, in which all is transition.