Envahisseurs is a collective made up of dancer and filmmaker Deicy Sanches and dancer and designer Teddy Sanches.

The collective expresses its view of society and its environment through hip hop, a total and multidisciplinary art movement. In this sense, their practice, which places dance at the centre, is in dialogue with all artistic fields.

This is how Teddy and Deicy express their vision through a global artistic approach: a battle made possible by garment-scale equipment at the Centre Pompidou in 2019, a film on film exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo as part of the Audi Talents prize, research on clothing at the Villa Kujoyama, performances for Nuit Blanche Kyoto, the Chichas de la pensée, at the Collection Lambert and a carte blanche at Bozar Brussels with talks, screenings and a performance.

©Teddy Sanches

Deicy Sanches, a graduate of the University of Nanterre in Film and Audiovisual Studies, is a multidisciplinary Franco-Cape Verdean artist. Drawing on her heritage and sensibility, she is interested in the themes of identity, colonisation and the practice of movement as a cosmic vibrational experience, which she explores through various media: film, photography and dance.

Over the past six years, she has directed documentaries in Cape Verde, as well as artistic short films focusing on dance, in France and Japan, as part of the Auditalents programme and a collaboration at Villa Kujoyama. With a background in hip-hop culture, she is interested in club culture and the underground club scene as a space of escape for racialised and marginalised communities. In 2020, she co-founded the collective “Envahisseurs” with dancer and designer Teddy Sanches, which expresses his perspective on society and his environment through hip-hop. Together, they have presented their works and performances at venues including the Nuit Blanche Festival in Kyoto, UNESCO headquarters in Paris and Bozar in Brussels.

In 2025, Deicy Sanches was invited to Brazil by the Quitus and IbiraLab collectives to showcase her work at the Brazilian Cinematheque and give a masterclass at Bloco do beco in São Paulo; then, to mark the 50th anniversary of Cape Verde’s independence, she is invited to take part in the group exhibition ‘Simenti di onti na txon di manhan’ at the Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. Finally, as part of the ‘Ideal Film Archive of the World’s Suburbs’, she is invited to screen and discuss her work at the MK2 cinema and the Centre Pompidou.

Franco-Cape Verdean designer and dancer Teddy Sanches studied at the prestigious ENSCI - Les Ateliers school in Paris, from which he graduated with honors in industrial design in 2019, with his “Envahisseurs Battle” project, an original event combining design and dance at the Centre Pompidou.

Thanks to his underground and African culture, to which he is very attached, Teddy questions his design practice using his sensitivity and attraction to the visual arts and fashion.

That same year, it was with this project that he won the Audi Talents award and co-founded the “Envahisseurs” collective with director and dancer Deicy Sanches. Their aim is to promote hip-hop dance through their affinity with the visual arts.
Since then, they have worked together on exhibitions, films and performances for venues such as Villa Kujoyama, Palais de Tokyo, La collection Lambert and Bozar Bruxelles.

Meanwhile, in 2020, Teddy Sanches co-founded the Hall Haus design studio with Abdoulaye Niang, Sammy Bernoussi and Zakari Boukhari. They advocate a creative approach that stems from a journey between their urban and multicultural environment (hall) and design (haus). The studio works with international clients such as Ikea. They have won residencies such as “À l'Oeuvre” from the Lafayette Anticipations Foundation in 2020 and “AlUla Design Residency” from the Royal Commission of AlUla and the AFALULA agency in 2024.
Lately they collaborated on a collection with Monoprix that will be launched on September 2026.