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, Franco-Cap Verdean, 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.
Her heritage and sensitivity have led her to explore issues of identity, colonisation and bodily memory through movement, using a variety of media : film, photography and dance.

In 2020, in collaboration with designer Teddy Sanches, 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 programme.
In 2022, she was awarded the Trame residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 2023, she directed a short dance film, In Between, at Villa Kujoyama, Japan and in 2024, she was invited, in collaboration with designer Teddy Sanches, to give a Carte Blanche at the Bozar museum in Brussels, as part of their nocturnes and the opening of their Afropolitan Festival.

Over the last six years, she has worked as a film director and camera operator with a number of museums, film associations and artists with whom she has collaborated on film and video projects, including MADD Bordeaux and the Cape Verde concentration camp museum.

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.