Helwa Laaba Di, Lolie Vernet-Senhadj, nov 2016

Lolie Vernet-Senhadj is an eclectic artist who has been teaching oriental dance in Paris and abroad since 2000, while relentlessly carrying on her training with very different teachers in terms of styles and approaches. At the same time, she keeps enhancing and going in depth into her work through modern jazz and contemporary dance classes. After taking part in the « Cie Leïla Haddad » (2003-2004), Lolie has been awarded international prizes three times between 2007 and 2009 by influential personalities of oriental dance (Nagwa Fouad, Farida Fahmy). Then she has been taking more time creating her own pieces since 2010, trying to shake cultural and spatiotemporal marks while protecting at the same time the authenticity, values and sensitivity conveyed by oriental dance. Her purpose is to break down some conception of oriental dance as an art with no evolution, with a kind of « permanence » – which is the way that most of « exotic » dances are mainly considered.