Mehdi Dakhan is a Moroccan choreographer and dancer born in 1998 in Tangier. His practice interrogates socially constructed behaviors in the Maghreb, using the body to explore themes of resistance, identity and belonging. In 2019, he started his choreographic research and founded the dance company Jil Z. Mehdi’s works include MA'KAN (2019), BNI MAKADA (2021), ONLY 14 (2023) and SUBJECT TO (2024), presented at venues and festivals such as the Charleroi Danse (Belgium), Belfast Festival (Ireland), the Museum of Monologues (Turkey), MMAG Foundation (Jordan), Frankfurt Lab (Germany), FIAC Festival (Brazil) and SummerWorks Performance (Canada).