Hamdi Dridi

Hamdi Dridi began his career in Tunis as a hip hop dancer, performing on rooftops and tram platforms as well as at weddings and youth centers. He then joined the Sybel Ballet Théâtre company directed by Syhem Belkhodja, where he met Hervé Robbe, Pedro Pauwels, Hafiz Dhaou, and Aicha M'Barek, before discovering the world of Maguy Marin in 2010. She trained him until 2011.

That same year, he created the solo piece EGALE. A year later, he collaborated on the piece AND SO & ALORS by choreographer Seifeddine Manai, which expresses the challenges of the Tunisian revolution and its impact on the body. He then joined the CNDC Angers in 2013.

He created the solo TU MEUR(S) DE TERRE, in tribute to his father, a house painter who died in 2014. Hamdi Dridi discovered the value of the worker's gesture in dance, which became a recurring theme in his choreographic intentions.

Through choreographer William Petit, who has been working with him since 2011, Hamdi Dridi met Emmanuel Serafini, director of the Hivernales d'Avignon festival, who programmed him as part of the Hiverôclites, for which the dancer won first prize.

In his piece ACTE & SUEURS, co-produced in 2020 by the Festival de Marseille and the Ballet National de Marseille, he explores the body in action in relation to a group.