Emmanuel Ndefo (b.1991, in Kano, Nigeria) is a performance and dance artist/researcher who uses his body as a tool for his creative process, to imagine how performance can contribute to larger contemporary conversations. He is interested in how bodies use space in liberatory and transformative ways. Though inspired by a wide range of forms and practices, the bulk of his work is rooted in dance and performance art. He combines his formal training in dance research with knowledge gained from the practice of various traditional dances from Africa, and with urban dance styles like hip-hop, krump and house dance.

Ndefo was a recipient of the African no filter storytellers fund (2021) and the ACCR Odyssey artist grant by the French ministry of culture in (2022). His notable works include "Traces of Ecstasy'' and "the Passage". Ndefo has undertaken residencies, presented his research and shown his live performance at other prominent institutions like; Center for Contemporary Art Lagos, Nigeria (2022). Centre nationale de la Danse Paris, France (2017), Transformatorio art festival Sicily, Italy (2018), Villa Karo Benin republic (2022), Kampnagel Hamburg, Germany (2023), Kunstwerk Koln, Germany (2023), Pact Zollverein Essen, Germany (2023), Turku new performance biennale (2023), Raid festival Salerno, Italy (2023) etc.