Originally from Kenya, Mwendwa Marchand is a dancer and choreographer specialising in dancehall. Influenced by Afro-Caribbean energies, she trained through her travels and within the crews she performed with, before joining the Adage training centre in 2017 to further develop her academic and contemporary dance practice. These two foundations—the street and the studio, the underground and the institutional—form the basis of her artistic work across teaching, underground scenes, and creation.

A performer with several companies, she has danced in Oum by Compagnie Massala, Queen Blood by Ousmane Sy, and currently in DUB (2023) and M&M (2024) by Compagnie Amala Dianor, as well as RAW by Sandrine Lescourant. She is also co-choreographer of Bikutsi 3000, directed by Blick Bassy.

Today, she develops the collective Outside, a space for creation and transmission rooted in an underground spirit. Out/Side, her first creation co-choreographed with Carl Dhélot, draws directly on her artistic journey and on the path she has carved within the dancehall underground scene.

Mwendwa Marchand is part of La Fabrique Underground at TLA, supported by the Plan Hip Hop of the Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis. She is also part of the IADU incubator—Initiatives d’Artistes en Danses Urbaines (Fondation de France – La Villette), 2026–2028 cohort.