Niki Tsappos

Maele Cheza Sabuni

Yared Tilahun Cederlund

Lustholmen: The Gathering

The Gathering

Photo: Nadja Ekman

Su 11.6.2023, 18:00-22:00, MDT Stage

"The Gathering" sessions are living experiences that happen through everybody being present – an opportunity to dance together, be creative, develop and improvise. Niki Tsappos, Maele Cheza Sabuni, Yared Cederlund, and producer Mia Annerwall invite you to a dance floor with and for dancers, aspiring dancers, dance enthusiasts and anyone else who wants to join the dance floor. 

The sessions are an opportunity to explore and exchange experiences between dancers, DJs and audience. You are warmly welcome to both dance or just observe, you will be co-creators and inspire regardless.

 

Music: House (deep, soulful, afro, latin, afrotech, amapiano and more)

Duration: A session is 4 hours and you can come and go as you wish. Please note that space and capacity is limited.

 

"The Gathering" promotes Streetdance and dance styles from the African continent that are practiced in community with others and to music. Meeting and dancing together, exchanging ideas, techniques and styles, and exploring, developing and creating dance forms the unique base of these styles and "The Gathering" has been designed in communion with this important context. 

"The Gathering" is a collaboration between Doundounbah and Gatuverket.

 

The association Doundounbah is a non-profit organisation that has organised dance workshops, jams, performances, concerts and clubs since 1999. Gatuverket is a newly established association that creates dance opportunities such as the successful event Into the Music at the Orionteatern during Kulturnatt Stockholm in April.

Niki Tsappos

Niki Awandee is a spiritual explorer and artistic alchemist that found a guiding light in dance, rhythm and music at a very young age. Her artistic expression and unique touch has brought her global resonance within the HipHop dance community. She is regularly seen flying out from her residence in Stockholm - Sweden to perform, teach, judge and host events and battles around the globe. In 2024 she reached an amazing and astonishing 54 countries, of whom many she has visited multiple times. Niki is a pioneering force questing for freedom and self expression through the practice of freestyle, rhythm, playfulness and intuition training. She has a deep interest in sharing these practices and methods with the aim to contribute to a global growth in creativity, personal resonance, heightened sensibility, genuine expressions and artistic/movement refinement. 

Niki is well known in the established global Hip Hop community through her various achievements related to her dance practice, winning many of the worlds most prestigious titles but foremost inspiring a world through her unique craft and powerful presence on and off stage. In recent years she has also made a name for herself creating and choreographing her own stage productions. “Head Peace” (2022) and “Raised on rhythm” (2023).

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Maele Cheza Sabuni

Maele: dansare, koreograf och DJ. Tidigare aktuell med föreställningen Festen, Bach in the Street och mer.

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Yared Tilahun Cederlund

Yared Tilahun Cederlund is a dancer, choreographer, DJ and music producer. Currently in the performance [...it is contained in…] Land Before Time 2022, Raised on Rythm 2023 and more.

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