Envahisseurs is a global project directed by dancer and director Deicy Sanches and dancer and designer Teddy Sanches.

They want to valorize the hip-hop and social dances invented by Black and Latino minorities in the United States (on the streets and in clubs) at the end of the 20th century. For Deicy and Teddy, these dances are charged with historical, social and cultural meaning.
To this end, Envahisseurs weaves a balanced dialogue between these dances and other art forms, and incorporates current themes such as de-colonialism and feminism.

This is how Teddy and Deicy use a global artistic approach to express their vision: a battle using wearable props at the Centre Pompidou in 2019, a film on film exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo as part of the Audi Talents prize, a research into clothing at Villa Kujoyama, performances for Nuit Blanche Kyoto, les Chichas de la pensée, at the Collection Lambert...

Deicy Sanches, French, of Cape Verdean origin, is a film director and dancer, with a Master's degree in Arts, Literature and Languages, majoring in Cinema and Audiovisual at the University of Paris Nanterre.
Attracted by art, her creativity is expressed through directing, dance and staging. In her film projects, because of her heritage and sensitivity, she is interested in the question of identity, colonisation, double culture, and pays particular attention to the archive image, its documentary value and its memory dimension.
She has been practicing hip-hop dance for the past fifteen years, and has also tackled subjects related to hip-hop culture, dance and clothing. In 2020, she directed a documentary film on the link between hip-hop culture and sneakers, for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design de Bordeaux, as part of the exhibition, Playground, le design des sneakers.
After learning from dancers and choreographers Thierry Anoman and Francis Mbida, she developed her dance on her own and combined it with her film practice. In 2020, she wrote and directed the film Envahisseurs, shot on film, about hip-hop dance and the notion of the circle, which she exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, as part of the Audi talents exhibition.

As a filmmaker, her desire is to restore a singular look on the world, to appropriate it in a subjective way, by filming reality with her "presence-in-the-world".

In 2022, she was laureate of the Trame residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where she worked on the writing and development of a documentary film on the practice of clubbing as a dance of resistance within the underground hip-hop dance community in Paris.

The designer and dancer Teddy Sanches studied at the prestigious ENSCI - Les Ateliers Paris school, from which he graduated with honours in industrial design in 2019, with his project Envahisseurs Battle, an original event mixing design and dance at the Centre Pompidou. The same year, with that project, he won the Audi Talents prize for the development of a film directed by his twin sister Deicy Sanches and a happening based on a circular protocol. Hip-hop gravitates in his daily life and becomes in turn a fertile playground for the needs of tomorrow's world and a material for bringing together graphic design and urban cultures. An exhibition accompanied by a weekend of performances was dedicated to him at the Palais de Tokyo in the summer of 2021.

With his plan to develop that project he won Villa Kujoyama Kyoto residency in 2021 and he is there in 2022 and 2023.

Teddy Sanches is also co-founder of design studio HALL.HAUS with Abdoulaye Niang, Sammy Bernoussi and Zakari Boukhari.  In 2020 they won the art residency "À l'Oeuvre" at the Lafayette Anticipations Foundation, they created and exhibited the "Curry Mango" armchair, an object that expresses their identity and with which they were finalists in the "Design Parade" festival at the Villa Noailles in 2022. They collaborated with Adidas, Ikea, Théorème Éditions, Nike...