Hello i'm LouBNa

You'll find here some of my stories, my research, my hobbies, my obsessions, my thoughts and my questions.I grew up between a Moroccan, Sahrawi, Somali and Yemeni lineages, in a family where art, music and oral transmission shaped everyday life. On my mother’s side, I carry a Gnawa heritage of healing, trance, dance and spiritual practice — a tradition where rhythm, repetition and collective vibration create states of alignment, memory and connection.This lineage has profoundly influenced the way I dance, create and perceive the world, grounding my artistic practice in a deep relationship to embodiment, ritual and the invisible.
From early on, movement became a natural language for me- to listen to what lives beneath the surface of things. My work blends dance, storytelling and social observation. I explore how bodies hold memory, how communities generate rhythm, and how movement can become a form of research, a method for accessing the unseen, and a tool for healing and transmission.At 19, I moved to London to study journalism — a shift that radically expanded my curiosity toward multicultural narratives and the artistic languages of the African and Afro-diasporic communities around me. The city was transformative: its encounters, friendships and diasporic networks immersed me in Nigerian, Ghanaian, South African, Jamaican, Indian and other cultures that shaped my worldview. It was also during this time that my passion for "Afro-urban" dance deepened, sparked by the rise of Afrobeats, Amapiano and the many movement vocabularies that were taking shape in London.Journalism gave me tools to read the world — to observe, to question, to connect stories — and dance became an extension of that. I learned to see movement as a social text, as a way to understand spaces, identities and collective dynamics.When I later returned to Geneva -where i grew up- this vision naturally evolved into organizing community events, teaching, and helping create collaborative spaces where movement, storytelling and shared cultural memory could coexist. My practice as a communicator — through editorial strategy, content creation and cultural project management — has always been guided by the same intention: to build bridges, to give form to meaningful narratives, and to cultivate spaces for dialogue.Over time, my artistic and journalistic paths converged with my heritage in a deeper, more conscious way. I came to understand the healer’s lineage carried on my mother’s side as a fundamental layer of my work.
This recognition reinforced my relationship to dance, music ans art as sacred, ancestral tools for healing, memory and resistance.Today, my practice sits at the intersection of journalism, art and cultural memory — both personal and collective. I explore ritual as a contemporary methodology for connection, and I am developing projects that draw from the cyclical structure of Gnawa trance — particularly the circle, the lila, the iterative rhythm — to create modern cyphers.These ritual-inspired spaces invite participants to explore resonance, embodiment and communal presence, blending tradition with contemporary movement cultures.
My future work aims to merge my cultural heritage with my experience in journalism, dance pedagogy, community building and communication.Through these hybrid ritual-cyphers, I hope to creat spaces that honour the past while imagining new ways of being together.

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Feminine creativityIn these spaces i work to create connexion, encourage exploration and look out for my people to feel safe, free and a little dramatic and silly.
Here we eplored some amapiano grooves and pantsula basic steps on Gqom, Deep house, Kwaito and Amapiano Music.Check my spotify playlist if you'd like to hear some of these sounds.