Curriculum Vitae

Selection of Works, performances and collaborations

• CompasCompositionConversation. Choreographer and dancer. Trio with Jossette Reilly and Afra Rubino for EarEye Festival 23, curated by Alma Söderberg. Touring Sweden: Norrlandsoperan - Umeå, Inkonst - Malmö and MDT - Stockholm. Sep - Oct 2023

• i come to you as a woman, dark and open. Solo performance during Bwa Kayiman Festival at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. August 2023

• Flamencura. Solo piece as part of Close Encounters at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (Museum). Copenhagen, Denmark. June 2023.

• ¿Flamenca, (no) Soy?. Investigative performance series at Espacio Afro. Madrid, Spain. Feb - April 2023.

• S/PACE. Solo piece, presented in collaboration with Oscar Murillo and SAVVY Contemporary. Venice, Italy. September 2022.

• Anadyomene. 7 hour solo performance, commissioned by Metropolis;  Rituals in the City Festival. Copenhagen, Denmark. August 2022.

• Ocean Foam. Choreographer and performer. Commissioned by KORA/Dansehallerne School tour, Denmark. Touring 2022/23 and 2023/24.

• Queer_Magick_Intervention. Performer and choreographer in work by Vala T. Foltyn and Wojtek Blecharz. Nuremberg, Germany. July 2022.

• Afropolis. Artistic collaborator. By Qudus Onikeku // La Friche la Belle de Mai & Festival de Marseille. Marseille, France. June-July 2022.

• Anatomy of a Tablao. Solo dancer at Pasión y Arte, Philadelphia. Nov 2021.

• Ancestrales pt. 2. Collaboration with musician Caro Acuña-Olvera at DUST festival. Brooklyn, New York. Nov 2021.

• G.R.I.E.F. Durational performance solo, commissioned by Yellow Fish Festival. Brooklyn, New York. May 2021.

• We Are Magic, We Are Real. Performer in video work by Jeannette Ehlers. Copenhagen. Nov 2020.

• Vanitas. Dancer in work by choreographer Jules Fischer. Premiere at Bikubenfonden, Copenhagen. Sept 2020.

• Mourning. 12 hour performance at Wa(l)king the City Performance festival (Metropolis), Copenhagen. July 2020.

• Flamencópolis CPH. Curator and performer at Union KBH, Copenhagen. February, Aug - Sept 2020.

• GASP - an ancestral performance for children at Børn i Byen Festival, Copenhagen. February 2020.

• Solo dancer, flamenco. Sevilla, Boston, Frankfurt, Rotterdam, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Lund (SE). 2014 - 2019.

• Nyar Kakan - I Contain Multitudes. Full length performance piece. Copenhagen, Évora (Portugal), and Oslo. 2019.

• FlamencÁfrica. Premiere in Madrid, Spain. March 2018.

• Flamenco45. Creative director and performer. Improvisational flamenco performances. Madrid, Jan - Dec 2017. 
  

RESEARCH // WRITTEN WORK

• Co-Editor, ‘Afro-Nordic Perspectives on Performance’, Anthology (trilogy). Editing alongside Deise Faria Nunes (NO/BR) and Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor (NO/US), expecting part 1 to be published Summer 2024.  

• Critical Feedback, HAUT, Copenhagen. Jan - June 2023 

• Article, ‘A Reflection of Spatial Listening’ in Being of Place, second edition of NXT Magazine (print), May 2022.

TALKS

• Invited keynote speaker, ‘Working from a place of Betwixt and Between’ // Peer to Peer session (Dansehallerne). Copenhagen. March 2022.

• Invited keynote speaker - Grief and the Dancing Body, SKH (UniArts Stockholm) Lecture series. Online, Feb 2022.

• Invited keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, ‘Bailar, Recorder, Resistir’, Conde Duque. Madrid, Spain. Jan 2022.

• Featured choreographer, ‘Flamenco, Embodied Spirituality & the African Diaspora’ as part of Camille A. Brown’s series: Social Dance for Social Change. Online, Nov 2021.  

• Invited panelist, two panels at Flamenco Festival Albuquerque’s History and Research Symposium. Online, July 2021.

• Danish representative, panel: Black Feminism and Culture in the Nordics hosted by Nordic Culture Point. Online, April 2021. 

• Artist Talk, Yellow Fish Festival, NYC. Online, March 2021

• Invited panelist, panel: Quality vs. Diversity at Nordic Dialogues Conference in Oslo 2nd-3rd December 2019.

ASSOCIATIONS

• Black Flamenco Network, founding member

• Northern Flamenco Network, founding member

• Third Culture Kid Collective, founder.

Residencies

• Yellow Fish Festival, Brooklyn NY. February 2021

• Casa Lü, Mexico City. December 2020

• HAUT x Bikuben, Copenhagen. August 2020

• OBRAS, Evoramonte - Portugal. May - June 2018

• RICE, Hydras - Greece. August 2016

Teaching and facilitation

• Flamenco fusion project, For Ensemble Español. Chicago. September 2023

• Afro-flamenco LAB series, Espacio Afro, Madrid. Feb - April 2023.  

• Flamenco Investigation Lab. Invited as guest collaborator. Hosted by Juan Carlos Lerida at Institut de Teatre. Barcelona, Spain. April 2022.

• Flamenco LAB - Morning training, Cullberg Balletten & Danscentrum, Stockholm. Feb 2022. 

• Guest teacher, 2 week intensive course with 2nd year students of BA in dance and choreography at Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola (UniArts), Stockholm. Feb 2022.

• Flamenco LAB - Morning training, Dansehallerne, Copenhagen. Aug 2020 & Dec 2021.

• Flamenco Masterclasses, Workshops for advanced flamenco dancers at Peña El Duende, Copenhagen. 2015-20. 

• Afro-Flamenco Workshops, Flamenco Academy Amor de Dios, Madrid. 2018-19.

• Teaching regular classes in traditional flamenco, Flamenco Academy Amor de Dios, Madrid. 2017-18. 

Visual Collaborations

Dance film (performing)

• ‘Tre karakterer, et rum’. Documentary short film by Danish director Mikkel Kruse. Copenhagen 2020

• ‘I Am All Things’. Collaboration with Irish visual artist Rob Monaghan. Performance film exhibited at BabyForest Festival, Ireland (2018), Évora, Portugal (2019) and part of the official selection at ‘Fuselage Dance Film Festival’ 2020, Seattle, USA.

• Solo dancer in art film ‘Eleftheria’ by Spanish director Mara Gutierrez, part of ‘Faces’ exhibition. London, Berlin, New York 2019.

• ‘Netflix’. Music video for US rapper Brotha CJ and the Othahood. Madrid 2019

• ‘Moving Marble’ and ‘Evoramonte’. Site-Specific performances and video installations. Portugal, June 2018.

• Flamenco Madrid - series of films for the Municipality of Madrid shot by Madalin Tiganus. 2017

• ‘Sweet Denial’. Music video for Berlin based duo UON. 2017

• Feature film with Canon Nordic, collaboration with photographer Emilia Therese, shown in all Nordic countries. April 2016.

Ethnographic film (directing)

• ‘Home underneath the trees’. Ethnographic short film on Nigerian men residing in Folkets Park, Copenhagen. August 2016.

• ‘Duende’. Ethnographic short film exploring a day of a flamenco dancer’s life in Seville. October 2013