Jolie Ngemi

Jolie Ngemi (born 16 April 1989) is a dancer and performance artist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[2] The style is described it as Chakamadesu A U C - Afro, Urban & Contemporary (chaka madesu is a Congolese stew, cooked in a variety of ways).

[1] In 2008 she toured Africa and Europe as part of a work created by the choreographer Thomas Styeart.

[8] It too is political, questioning where the profit from its mineral wealth in diamonds, coltan and tin ends up.

[9] Her 2018 work Identity n’a ngai collaborated with composer Yann Leguay, who used field recordings from Kinshasa at night to inform to piece.

Dance in the Crossroads 2 - Ngemi is on the left
Poster - Dance in the Crossroads