“Originally from Laos, Olé Khamchanla grew up in France and discovered hip-hop dance in 1990. He trained with different dancers and choreographers in hip-hop, capoeira, contemporary, Thai, and lao traditional dances before to create his first dance company A’CORPS from 1997 to 2010. In January 2010, he created the first international dance festival in Laos, FANG MAE KHONG / FMK (Listen to the Mekong), which aims to promote and facilitate the circulation of Southeast Asian artists while allowing exchange with European and international artists.

Since then, through the KHAM company created in 2011, Olé Khamchanla has multiplied international cooperation actions in Asia (residencies, training, creations, transmission), and continues to enrich his choreographic vocabulary and the circulation of cultures and works between France and the Asian region.

The artistic approach developed today by Olé Khamchanla is that of a contemporary creation freed from the codes of the dances he hybridizes, an incessant search for the crossing of dances, cultures, and sometimes different artistic disciplines with which he explores different themes.”