Malmö Dance Week, Malmö Konstmuseum and Malmö University are collaborating to host a day focused on navigating the ongoing cultural crisis through dance, lectures, krump and therapy. Everyone is welcome and we warmly recommend to take part of the full day program.

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Two dance artists, Sonya Lindfors and Malmö-based Slowz, are currently developing new dance works. They will share their creative process through both performance and discussion. Sonya Lindfors will also lead a lecture workshop exploring: "fictions and friction, speculative practices and why intersectionality is so f***ing hard! Let's talk about the ghosts that haunt our stages and the power of the stage as a miracle machine!"

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"Dance in Times of Crises" is the title of a panel discussion on how one can make an impact and the role of art and dance in times of crises." This discussion will address how dance and choreography can genuinely influence society, the motivation behind creating dance and art, and how to continue artistic creation amidst growing far-right oppression. The evening will conclude with a short Krump-workshop with Benson and "Cultural Crisis Therapy Session," offering practical advice and methods for mentally coping with a cultural crisis.

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Artists in the paneltalk

Moderator: Lucy Cathcart Frödén is a researcher, linguist and artist, working primarily with music and sound. She is interested in creative co-creation and how collaboration can foster solidarity and mutual engagement. Her research seeks to understand how the radical openness that collaborative creativity requires can transform gaps - between people, languages, cultures, academic disciplines or art forms - into a common starting point.

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Sonya Lindfors (FI) is an award - winning Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and artistic director who also works with facilitating, community organizing and education. Lindfors’ recent works One Drop (2023), common moves (2023), We Should All Be Dreaming, camouflage (2021), Soft Variations Online (2020) centralize questions around Blackness and Black body politics, representation and power structures, speculative futurities and decolonial dreaming practices.

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Anna Öberg (SE) is a choreographer and dancer working in the intersection between choreography, sound and spatial practices using her background in Swedish folk dance as the starting point for both her artistic and research work. In 2015 she was awarded an MFA degree in Choreography at Stockholm University of Arts as the first traditional dancer in its history. She also holds a Post Master from The Royal Institute in Art, Stockholm. Her artistic works are presented in both Sweden and abroad.

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Ingeborg Zackariassen (NO) Is a Gothenburg-based writer, choreographer and artistic director. She explores the intersections of art, politics and society, with particular attention to cultural policy and the precarious conditions of the independent dance field. She co-runs the artist-driven platform No Deadline, which organises the Rabbit/Duck Festival and Creative Currents – focusing on interdisciplinary art and choreography –  and is published internationally, by Tanz, tanz.dance, Springback Magazine, as well as several Nordic journals.

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Dung Chinh Nguyen a.k.a Slowz is a multifaceted artist – bboy, DJ, performer, music producer and community enthusiast. He entered Hip Hop culture in 2005 as a Bboy and in 2008 he joined "Big Toe Crew", as well as he started his DJ'ing and producing career.  "2Groove" was founded by Slowz and his partner Groovy with the purpose to teach street kids and youth in Vietnam, using Hip Hop as a tool to express and uplift their lives. Today Slowz is a key person in the Vietnam Hiphop scene, facilitating workshops, jams, parties and other activities with his collective in Vietnam and also in Sweden where he is now based.

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About the Krump workshop with Benson

A special highlight of the program is a 30-minute Krump workshop: a dance style born in marginalized communities, transforming anger, pain, and resistance into creative energy. Open to everyone – with or without prior dance experience – the workshop creates a space to connect body, emotion, and community in new ways. BENSON A’KUYIE is a singer, dancer, and performer strongly shaped by the dance style Krump. His work weaves Afrofuturism, queerness, spirituality, and magic, inviting audiences into transformative, spiritual dimensions. With his short film Shaman (2020) and his solo performance SanctuarYIE (2023), he gained international attention. In 2024 he was selected for a residency in Malmö to develop his new performance [GN-z33/6°].

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Cultural Crisis Therapy  

Schedule

Free of charge. Get your ticket here

12:30 Doors Open

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13:00-13:25 Dance - Residency showing

Project: Adapter

Performer: Slowz

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13:35-14:00 Dance  - Work in progress sharing

Project: Living in Color / In Living Color

Choreographer: Sonya Lindfors

Dancers: Maele Sabuni and Benson A’Kuyie

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14:15-15:15 Lecture workshop

Working with f(r)ictions – towards decolonial and speculative practices 

Sonya Lindfors

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15:15-15:45 Crises Fika

Free Fika will be served and wraps are for sale.

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15:45-16:45 Panel Talk

Dance in Times of Crises 

Moderator: Lucy Cathcart Frödén

Panel: Ingeborg Zackariassen, Anna Öberg, Sonya Lindfors and Dung Chinh Nguyen

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17:00-17:30 Dance Workshop (no prior dance experience needed)

Krump with Benson A’Kuyie 

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17:45-18:30 Therapy session

Cultural Crisis Therapy 

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