Lazare Ohandja is a dancer and choreographer born in Cameroon in 1979. He has been dancing since the age of 8 and in 1985 he approached Afro-contemporary dance by training with the choreographer Ebalé Zam Martino at the Nyanga Dance Center in Yaoundé. From now on, he continues his studies incessantly, perfecting himself alongside important international choreographers in courses and internships in Africa, Canada and France. In 2001 he founded the company Phoenix (later to become Mo 'O Me Ndama, "with open arms" in Bantu) and signed the choreography L'âme de la danse, which he presented at the Rencontres théâtrales internationales in Yaoundé then at the "No andiamo ad Avignon" in Paris in 2003 and at the Reality Festival in Bamako, Mali. The piece Enfant sans nom participates in the Jomba Festival in South Africa; Bissima in the street rue en trance obtains funding from the Dutch Embassy in Cameroon and participates in the Beirut Street Festival in Lebanon. With the Big Bowie show, he toured various countries in Africa and Europe for three years, works on television in Cameroon, France and Italy, where in 2004 he decided to settle. But he doesn't stop travelling: between 2007 and 2008, with the 020 company of Amsterdam, he created an intercultural exchange project between Holland and Cameroon, which ended with the creation of the exhibition Leave in Silence, of which he was choreographer with "The Dutchman Bryan Druiventak. The project, financed by the Embassy of the Netherlands, was presented at the theater of the Center Culturel Français in Yaoundé and in various cities of Cameroon where Lazare Ohandja has promoted the dance, theater and music training of over 5000 children from 1998 to today. In Italy, in Milan, he has participated in various television programs (Markette di Chiambretti, Alle furde del Kilimanjaro, Crozza nel Paese delle Meraviglie). He dedicates himself to the activities of Mo 'O Me Ndama, which in addition to being his company is also a cultural association where all of Mo's work is trained; 'O Me Ndama is based on a reflection on identity understood as a constantly evolving concept, determined by the meeting and comparison between individuals of different cultures. With Mo 'O Me Ndama Lazare creates and directs many shows: Match, winner of the 2011 Lidia Petroni Prize, was then presented at the Piccolo Teatro Grassi on the occasion of the Tramadafrica festival, at the Festival delle Culture in Ravenna, in the Teatro Ringhiera and the Comuna Baires of Milan won the 3rd prize at the Oriente Ovest Festival in Rovereto in 2011. Colors was presented at the Milan Conservatory in Sala Verde. Every time has its habits at the Teatro Greco, also in Milan. Last two shows: ISSE-IL CIRCHIO produced in co-production with CRT-Milano and Studio Azzurro, performed from 18 to 23 December 2015 and July 2016. “Bissima dans la rue la rue en trance” produced in Production with Ponderosa and Studio Azzurro as part of the TRIP and Contaminafro festival, evolving identity 2018 at the Teatro dell'Arte, Milan. Artistic director of the Oltre L'Arte Festival which then turns into the Contaminafro Festival 2014 at PIME and 2015 at the Fabbrica del Vapore, 2016 at the Triennale Teatro dell'Arte, 2017 at the mareculturaleurbano, 2018 in collaboration with Ponderosa, Fabbrica del Vapore, Triennale and the urban cultural sea, 2019 IN THE FACTORY OF VAPORE with important guests such as RICHARD BONA, LA NOTTE DELLA TARANTA and many others! Take part in the ESTATE SFORZESCA MILANESE in 2020 with a concert by Daniele Durante on tour. The Festival continues as a platform in the Milan area for next 2021 and will be brought to Cameroon for the first time in the summer of 2021. Lazare Ohandja promotes a work of fusion between contemporary Afro dances and traditional dances, with a strong theatrical component. It is a strong and communicative, energetic and dynamic dance theater. A particular style, constantly evolving, because the identity of a choreographer evolves in contact with traditions and cultures that are very distant from each other