Smaïl Kanouté graduated in graphic design before learning to dance in the streets of France, Brazil, Mali and Europe. Mixing dance and visual arts, his choreography becomes a painting of moving patterns in space. Gatherer of world stories and storyteller of social facts, his artwork is fuelled by artistic and multicultural influences. Through his art, he welcomes the audience to step into a new journey of self-discovery, by sharing his vision of beauty and humanity. Kanouté lives and works in Paris, where he has created his own company, Vivons. Never Twenty One is the first work of a triptych questioning the Black community’s condition in different times and locations, and to a large degree dealing with the impact of colonialism and the persistence of ancestral rites as an affirmation of identity.