Malmö Dance Week and Malmö Konstmuseum are collaborating to host a day focused on navigating the ongoing cultural crisis through dance, lectures, krump and therapy.

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More info about Culture Crisis Therapy here‍

We start the program of "Cultural Crisis Therapy" with a progress sharings from the two dance artists, Sonya Lindfors and Malmö-based Slowz, who are currently developing new dance works. They will share their creative process through both performance and discussion.

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Sonya Lindfors & working group: Living in Color / In Living Color
(work in progress sharing)

This series of performative actions and interventions departs from the urgent, unsettled question: What does it mean to be “of color”?

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By weaving together traces of past works with new performative experiments, the working group opens a collective space where ghosts are summoned and portals opened. The work is an invitation to remain with the discomfort of racialization while moving towards futures that imagine Blackness as processes of becoming—fluid, multiple, and ever-expanding. A decolonial and speculative practice where Blackness can be dreamt and re-dreamt.

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For more than a decade, Sonya Lindfors has been working with the thematics of Blackness and Black body politics, interrogating questions of power and representation both on and off stage, while actively practicing imagining further. Living in Color / In Living Color is the beginning of a larger body of works under the title Black & Blue.

Production: UTT ry

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‍Sonya Lindfors 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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Dung Chinh Nguyen aka Slowz

Slowz is the recipient of the Malmö Dance Week Residency 2025

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"Adapter is a journey into sound and movement where adaptation in all ways is the key. It’s a journey where I’ll experiment and learn how to adapt technology to my body to control the sound and create music with movement at the same time. It might find new ways to move and also new techniques to develop live performance. I want to tell a story and share my message within the performance and be able to have a live interaction with the audience."

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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. In 2011 Slowz and some of Hanoi's Bboys formed "S.I.N.E Crew" which became a known worldwide crew. They toured and entered varies of competitions and performed nationally and internationally. In 2015 "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.

Cultural Crisis Therapy  

Schedule

12:30 Doors Open

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13:00-13:30 Dance

Residens showing of Malmö Dance Week residency 2025

Recipient: Slowz 

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13:30-14:00 Dance

Process sharing 

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

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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

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17:00-17:30 Dance Workshop

Krump with Benson A’Kuyie 

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17:45-18:30 Therapy session

Cultural Crisis Therapy