Selma & Sofiane Ouissi

Brother and sister, Sofiane and Selma Ouissi have been performing together since the beginning of their careers. Graduates of the Tunis National Academy for Music and Dance and the Dance National Center of Tunis, and holders of the Diplôme d’Etat d’Enseignement de la Danse (France), they are considered as main figures of the Arab contemporary dance scene.

The duo has performed with major Tunisian and international theater directors and choreographers (Fadhel Jaziri, Hichem Rostom, Martino Muller, Cie de Michèle Anne de Mey…) in world class venues and performing arts platforms (Théatre de la Ville de Paris, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Tanzquartier Wien, Danse à Aix, Bouffes du Nord in Paris, Festival de Carthage). Their own creations include “STOP... BOOM” (2004) and “Waçl” (2007), among other performances and have been staged across the region and Europe.

In 2007, Selma and Sofiane Ouissi created "Dream City", a multidisciplinary festival in Tunis. In 2010 they launched the artistic and urban magazine “ZAT”, among other cultural projects and pedagogical activities in the fields of movement, dance and new circus.

Software, digital and video artist Yacine Sebti has been developing programs and software using Max/MSP, Jitter or SoftVNS since an early age. First aiming to create useful tools, he gradually showed growing interest in the possibilities of interaction between the performer, the spectator and the machine.

Artistic collaborations include: Marcio Ambrosio (animator), Pascal Base (experimental filmmaker), Tom Heene (video artist), Jaouad Essounani (theatre director)