Samir Akika

Samir Akika is a choreographer, director and curator/producer (“raw like sushi festival”, “unusual symptoms”). Born in Algiers and raised in a suburb of Paris, he studied Physics, Maths and Sports in Paris and Miami, before discovering dance at the age of 26 upon seeing a video of Pina Bausch’s “Le Sacre du Printemps”. He studied Dance at the Folkwang University in Essen and began working as a freelance dancer and choreographer with close ties to the Theater im Pumpenhaus in Münster.

In addition, he develops youth projects all over the world, from Johannesburg to Nuremberg, from Berlin to Havana and from Gelsenkirchen to Hamburg. His current role models are Didier Drogba, Michel Jordan, Tiger Woods and the Speedy Angels.