Envahisseurs is a collective made up of dancer and director 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 recently a carte blanche at Bozar Brussels with talks, screenings and a performance.

Deicy Sanches is a French-Cape Verdean filmmaker and dancer based in the suburbs of Paris. Due to her heritage and sensibility, she is interested in the issues of identity, colonisation and bodily memory through movement, which she explores through various mediums : film, photography and dance.

Over the past five years, she has made documentaries in Cape Verde, as well as artistic dance short films in France and Japan, as part of the Auditalents programme at the Palais de Tokyo and a collaboration at Villa Kujoyama. Coming from a hip-hop background, she is interested in clubbing culture, its music and dances, and the underground club scene as a space of escape for racialised and marginalised communities. In 2020, she co-founded the collective ‘Envahisseurs’ with designer Teddy Sanches, which expresses his view of society and its environment through hip-hop, an artistic movement that is total and multidisciplinary in its essence.

In 2022, she was awarded the Trame residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 2024, she and Teddy Sanches were invited to participate in a Carte Blanche at the Bozar Museum in Brussels as part of the opening of the Afropolitan Festival. In 2025, she was invited to Brazil by the Quitus and IbiraLab collectives to share her work at the Brazilian Cinematheque and give a masterclass at Bloco do beco in São Paulo. Then, on the occasion of Cape Verde's 50th anniversary of independence, she was invited to participate in the collective exhibition ‘Simenti di onti na txon di manhan’ at the Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde.

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.