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The New Rhythm of The Night (Malmö Dance Week)

Doors open: 17:30
Talk: 18:00-19:00
Performance: 19:30 (TRACKS – VIKTOR FRÖJD)
Curfew: 21:00

About the talk

What is happening with Malmö’s club scene? The once so vibrant city isn’t so vibrant anymore, or is it? Is it true that young people today aren’t as interested in going out dancing and partying as they used to be? Or is it a question of funding, complaining neighbours and political circumstances hindering the nightlife? A panel of local as well as international club promoters investigate the current climate for clubbing in Malmö and beyond. What can we do to help create the new rhythm of the night?

‍Moderator: Sonya Lindfors (FI)

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.

‍On a larger scale Lindfors’ time is divided between her own artistic work, educational work and working as the artistic director of UrbanApa. In all her positions she pursues creating and facilitating anti-racist and feminist platforms, where a festival, a performance, a publication or a workshop can operate as the site of empowerment and radical collective dreaming.

‍After the Panel talk the dance performance Tracks is happening in the Black box

Panel  participants

Brooklyn Terry (US)

Terry was born and raised in Brooklyn NYC. Growing and living in the childhood stages and the golden era of hip hop at his doorstep he took in all of the sights, sounds and vibes. At the early age of 15 He began clubbing and giving back to the culture through Dance. He became one of the most well known dancers in the clubs during the Golden era of Hip Hop and House in NYC.  He is the youngest member of the Crew “Elite Force” who are now known for creating the face of Hip Hop dance as we know it today. He went on to work and tour with such acts as Mariah Carey, Will Smith, Missy Elliot, Ricky Martin, Da Brat, Left Eye (of TLC) Just to name a few and now travels the world as a battle judge, teacher and mentor to young dancers around the world.

‍Terry at the age of 14 had already began to Dj just for fun at a friends house who lived in his building. He had always been a bit of a music nerd and even though he did not become a professional DJ until late in his career after he had moved to Tokyo, his knowledge of music and experience in entertainment pushed him quickly to the forefront.

He has now set himself on the path of a beat maker and crossing the lines from some who dances to the music and Plays the music to someone who creates the creates and builds community with his new business in New York  “The REP Music Cafe”. Terry is consistently raising the bar as a Dancer, Dj and an organizer and feels if you are not raising the bar then you are holding the culture back.

‍Lucas Benjamin (NL) 

Lucas Benjamin is an Amsterdam-based DJ, promoter and true musicologist.
His first encounters with music started at an early age. As the son of a DJ and musician he was nourished with a broad selection of sounds. His true passion for music evolved when he started dancing at the age of twelve. Unifying his mind, body and soul with tribal drumbreaks, powerful funky horn sections and soulful vocals made him experience the true essence of jazz, funk and soul. Since his beginnings Lucas always had a great interest in music and its history which made him spent hours in record-stores, educating himself by analysing numerous records.‍

His musical journey is a never-ending continuous quest that has been taking him deep into Afro & Brazilian music alongside the latest electronic experiments. Lucas founded the Wicked Wax record label, is part of the Ghetto Funk Collective, as well as parties such as MORE BOUNCE and more recently, the educational platform Steppin’ Into Tomorrow. He has organized plenty of club nights, live concerts, documentary screenings, gives music history lectures and mentors upcoming DJs. In short, a person living music in its totality.

Jonna Blode Hanno (SE)

Freelance events organiser, culture producer and founder of Malmö based drag club Club Mermaid.