On 28 May in front of Plovdiv Municipality, by the fountains on the Main Pedestrian Street five dancers from the company of Belgian choreographer Zora Snake will present a showcase featuring battles, demonstrations of different styles, and improvisation. At 18:25, Snake and the dancers will lead a collective class open to everyone who wishes to join.

Zora Snake, whose real name is Tejeutsa, which means "a person with a strong empathy" in the traditional language of Yemba, is a choreographer, dancer and researcher in performance art. In 2013, he founded the Zora Snake Company in Yaoundé and in 2017, the MODAPERF International Festival – MOuvements, DAnses et PERFormances. A multiple winner and finalist, he is said to be one of the most promising artists in the current hip-hop (Popping) scene, and in the art scene in Africa and elsewhere. For him, curiosity is what justifies the need to explore dance, which is not that of the One, but that of the Many. She rearticulates hip-hop and contemporary dance, artistic practices in urban spaces open to the public and politico-poetic ritual performances, art and society. In fact, dance here is less a style than a thought, even a challenge in relation to the world in which we live.

Winner of the 2016-2017 Visas for the creation program of the Institut Français, he works regularly in the French cultural network around the world, as well as with the Goethe-Institut. In 2021, in the wake of MODAPERF, he created the Espace-Labo, a place of artistic crossovers and sharing and a social and cultural incubator; it is open to artists and cultural operators to (re)invent artistic languages, professionalize young artists and thus perpetuate art in contact with audiences in Africa.

Zora Snake has a very strong relationship with commitment. First, because commitment is the primary material of his audacious and explosive pieces: Beyond the Human; I am; Cross-border; The Departure; The Aftermath of Colonization; The Masks Fall or Shadow Survivors. Then, because he is a permanent subject of reflection, the artist participates in conferences and seminars, he leads workshops, he writes.

Halfway between theory, method and archival document, her book L'art est une boxe – de la performance et du politique in collaboration with Julie Peghini and Dominique Malaquais, begun during a writing residency at the Camargo Foundation, offers essential keys to the apprehension of performance as a means of creating common spaces of contestation, of reflection and collaboration – spaces that transcend boundaries, both physical and disciplinary. He has recently collaborated with choreographers Serge Aimé Coulibaly and Amanda Piña.