Bintou Dembélé founded the Company Rualité, a word that combines “street” (rue) and “reality” (réalité), in 2002. Based in Seine Saint-Denis, Rualité engages in artistic and cultural projects that spiral research, creation, diffusion, and transmission together. Set to rhythmic polyphonies of repetitive music, Bintou Dembélé’s artistic creations (shows, performances, films) combine street forms and Maroon dance. They explore ritual and bodily memory, problematize gender, question past wounds – individual or collective—along with the possibility of escaping them through strategies of reappropriation and marronage. Innovative forms testify to the evolution of her thought, dance and artistic engagement through time. Her artistic projects unfold in museum spaces, operas, on social media networks, and in the street, in a permanent shuffle between the street and the stage. To include dancers in her approach and research process, Bintou Dembélé, in collaboration with the cultural consulting collective La Belle Ouvrage, has designed a long and innovative training program called DETER that has forged a new vision of street dances –and those who perform them.