—

Desire Arsene was invited  as a hip hop dancer to showcase at the Batalo East dance festival in Uganda in 2017. He worked with the Next Move dance company in 2018 as a dance teacher and together with that company created a dance piece called Inside. The piece was presented at the Kenyan international theatre festival and at EANT festival in Kigali in 2018. 

In 2018/2019, he worked as a dance teacher for Amizero dance kompagnie and Orpas Roppa organization and conducted dance awareness programs in 10 different schools in Rwanda.  In 2019 he was selected as a dance performer with Mashirika for Kwita izina, a naming ceremony of gorillas in Rwanda.

Desire then went for a three-week dance residency in Belgium at the Halle de Schaerbeek Afro capital where he created and performed a piece called Iris. In 2021 he was part of the < in women’s shoes > satellite project of Learning Feminism from Rwanda by Flinn Works. Supervised by Wesley Ruzibiza, he created the solo ‘Corporate Wonder Woman’

Desire is currently a dance teacher who offers dance classes and runs a business with an aim of taking his dancing career to another level.