Ogoula Latif Jean Remy

From volunteering to artistic direction

It all began in 2005-2006 at the Festival Gabao, Libreville's great hip-hop gathering: Ogoula Latif Jean Remy joined as a volunteer, became head of the volunteer team, then communications assistant. He then trained abroad for two years — stage management and cultural administration — returned to run the festival's communications in 2008, and became its general stage manager in 2011-2012. As a dancer, he also toured: Brazil, Denmark, France, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon.

Plateau Jeune Création: ten editions for the next generation

In 2012, with CAE Culture Prod — “Créativité Africaine pour l'Excellence” — he created the Festival Plateau Jeune Création Libreville, a platform to spot, train, produce and tour young Gabonese creations, described as the only one of its kind in the country. The record of its first five years speaks for itself: 250 young artists trained, 32 productions staged, fifteen alumni who left for companies in the Netherlands, France, Germany, the United States and Asia, twelve more trained in major choreographic centres — and revealed talents such as Djaroule, a finalist of L'Afrique a un incroyable talent, and Bazko, a Miami Got Talents 2016 laureate. The tenth and final edition took place in late 2023.

The Biennale: Libreville, capital of Central African arts

In 2026, the platform steps up a level: the Biennale Internationale Danse & Arts Libreville, of which he is the artistic director, brings together ten Central African countries and France as guest of honour from November 25 to 28, 2026, around the dialogue of cultural spaces and the touring of the sub-region's artists.

A bridge between Gabon and the world

Visa For Music ambassador in Gabon, Gabonese partner of the Consultations Poétiques of the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), representative of the Biennale de la danse en Afrique, he represented Gabon at the New Africa-France Summit in Montpellier in 2021 and joined the 2022 cohort of the United States' International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). In 2026, CAE Culture Prod handles the touring of a Gabonese creation at the Biennale de la Danse en Afrique, at the École des Sables (Senegal); he is also artistic and scientific assistant to Gabonese composer Tsira Ndong Bibang and his Mvett Trio, programmed in Germany. In Libreville, he co-founded GLORIMA, the Grand Concours des Voix Sacrées, in 2026, and he is the Gabon focal point of IA For Africa Initiatives.

Highlights

• 2005-2006 — starts out as a volunteer at the Festival Gabao (Libreville)
• 2011-2012 — general stage manager of the Festival Gabao
• 2012 — creates the Festival Plateau Jeune Création Libreville (ten editions, through 2023)
• Since 2020 — CAE Culture Prod, Gabonese partner of the Consultations Poétiques (Théâtre de la Ville, Paris)
• 2021 — represents Gabon at the New Africa-France Summit (Montpellier)
• 2022 — International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), United States
• 2026 — artistic director of the 11th Biennale Internationale Danse & Arts Libreville; co-founder of GLORIMA