Meleat Fredriksson is a choreographer and dancer based in Copenhagen. She holds a BA in dance and choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts.

 Meleat’s processes are carried by intuition and curiosity. In her work she creates embodied situations where multi-layered meaning and emotions emerge. Her experience ranges from creating and performing in pieces for stage, schools, and exhibition halls to teaching workshops and organizing events.

Meleat’s work has been shown at festivals such as My Wild Flag (SE), Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival (SE), TheCarrierBag Festival (DK), New Sh*t (DK), Dubrovnik Summer Festival (HR) and Hong Kong International Choreography Festival (HK). Meleat has been creating and performing for, or together with Noé Soulier, Ligia Lewis, Andros Zins Browne, Lydia Östberg Diakité, Adam Seid Tahir, danseatelier and Francesco Scavetta amongst others. She was also part of founding danseatelier; a self-organized studio space and a group of 11 performance artists in Copenhagen.

Adam Seid Tahir (they/them) is a choreographer and creative technologist. Their two roles involve crafting performative work and designing/developing websites. These practices also merge and expand into writing texts, making video installations, 3D animation, crafting sensor-based instruments and building the new MDT website which launched in 2023. Seid Tahir uses speculative imagination as a tool of resistance and centres their work around creating loud and immersive black queer fiction. They are interested in mythological figures, daydreaming and crafting affective machines. These interests often intersect through water, where they take the shape of sirens, waterfalls and submerged transatlantic communication cables. In their latest works Seid Tahir keeps returning to the practice of braiding hair. Both its traditional meaning with its ancestral social traditions and through the expanded idea of braiding as a method for working together. In the latter notion Adam has recently collaborated with Amina Seid Tahir and the collective EMBRACE (Lydia Östberg Diakité, Meleat Fredriksson and Adam Seid Tahir).

They have presented their work in contexts including: Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2023 (BE), New Sh*t @ Dansehallerne 2022 (DK), Emergentia 2022 (CH), Batard 2022 (BE), My Wild Flag 2021 (SE) and Dubrovnik Summer Festival 2020 (HR). They have worked with other artists including: Bambam Frost, Pontus Pettersson, Frederic Gies, Theo Clinkard, Samlingen, Meleat Fredriksson, Lydia Östberg Diakité, Amina Seid Tahir, Paloma Madrid, Eleanor Bauer, Zoë Poluch and Michael Keegan-Dolan. They have studied courses and programmes including: Decolonial strategies within art and activism @ Uniarts (SE), Aesthetics @ LTU (SE), Programming for Artists @ Konstfack (SE), Ballet Junior de Geneve (CH) and Royal Swedish Ballet School (SE).

Lydia Östberg Diakité is a dancer, choreographer and union organizer who since 2013 is based in Copenhagen. Ö. Diakité is inspired by and refers in its work to popular cultural phenomena, hyper-performativity, contemporary criticism and tenderness. These themes and concepts are embodied in the works EMBRACE and CRY BABY. Ö. Diakité works with an intersectional feminist approach in artistic processes and practices decolonization of art production and sees a value in shaping new collective realities. Ö. Diakité laid the foundation for Dance Cooperative and runs it together with 15 artists in Copenhagen. Since 2019, Ö. Diakité is on the board of The Union, a workers union that works towards the elimination of racism on the culture and art scene in Denmark.