Fouad Boussouf is a choreographer, dancer and educator, who was born in Morocco and moved with his family to France as a child, where he later trained as a hip-hop dancer. He founded the Massala Company in 2010. His modern style, which combines hip-hop, contemporary dance, traditional forms of dance from North Africa and contemporary circus, is based on his multidisciplinary career and experience as a dancer. These influences merge into something new in his stylistically diverse choreographic works. In 2021, he served as artiste associé at Maison de la Danse in Lyon and at Équinoxe, Scène nationale de Châteauroux. He moved to Le Phare – Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Normandie as its newly appointed director at the beginning of 2022. Picture: Karo Cottier

The Massala Company features a lively mix of different styles of dance, such as hip-hop and contemporary dance and circus as well as traditional forms of dance from Bassouf’s native country Morocco and the Arabic world. Massala’s creations intentionally combine various forms of dance and rhythm and celebrate different aspects of the art of dance. Picture: Elian Bachini