Oumrata Konan is a dancer, performer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Île-de-France. Her choreographic work is part of a sensitive and political research practice at the intersection of the intimate body and the social body. She has notably made her mark in whacking, a dance born in African-American queer clubs in the 1970s, which she claims as a language of expression, resistance, and truth.

Self-taught in hip hop dance, she completed her training at the Académie Internationale de la Danse. This dual background—between street practice and institutional training—feeds a practice that preserves both the spontaneity of movement and the demands of technique. She has collaborated with Tatiana Seguin, Marion Motin, Josepha Madoki, and Benjamin Millepied, moving across choreographic worlds spanning popular and contemporary scenes.

Since 2020, she has developed several projects alongside Mounia Nassangar, with whom she shares a common approach to whacking as a tool of affirmation, before joining the creation STUCK. This long-standing collaboration marks a defining step in her trajectory as a performer.

As a choreographic author, she presents her first solo in 2026: Maison Lou(p). Presented as part of UNDER/GROUND, the piece explores the taboo of incest through the language of whacking, drawing on her own story and on the work of anthropologist Dorothée Dussy.

An Alter Ego artist, Oumrata Konan is supported in this role through delegate production by CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne.