During the research process, we will experiment with movement, live sound, and improvisation to develop a dance language that embraces fluidity and challenges normative expectations within Krump. Together, we will explore the relationship between percussion, voice, looping technology, and the body, creating an evolving sonic landscape that informs the choreography.
Central to this research is the hip as a primary tool of movement. The hip is an existential part of the body — it carries weight, generates rhythm, and connects the dancer to ancestral as well as contemporary vocabularies.
Yet when men move their hips with visibility and intention, this often provokes discomfort, unease, or even hostility in other men. Through the residency, we want to take the time to explore where this discomfort comes from:
what is being protected, and what is being feared, when a male body claims a movement so often coded as feminine, sexual, or "inappropriate."
The residency serves as a space for experimentation allowing us to imagine a decolonial, anti-racist, and queer-affirming future where bodies can exist beyond imposed limitations, and where past, present, and future merge into a shared speculative space.
BENSON A'KUYIE and Dylan "HUNTERCHEE" Greene form a duo working at the intersection of movement and live sound. A'KUYIE brings Krump, Akan dance traditions, music and live looping into an Afrofuturist, decolonial, and queer-affirming movement language; Greene brings a percussive foundation spanning Western classical, neo-classical, and Ghanaian Ashanti Kete drumming, shaped by collaborations across North America, Europe, and Africa. Together, they build an evolving sonic-choreographic practice in which percussion, voice, looping technology, and the body inform one another in real time — treating rhythm and movement as a shared, improvisational language rather than separate disciplines.
Credits:
Marco Pisano (han/ham)
Brooklyn Odunsi Ifeacho (hun/hende)
Anne Schwarzelt (hun/hende)
BENSON A’KUYIE is an artist, singer, dancer, choreographer, and performer whose artistic practice is deeply influenced by the dance style Krump. His work explores themes of Afrofuturism, queerness, spirituality, and magic. Through Krump, he has developed a distinctive movement language that transports audiences into immersive, spiritual worlds. In 2020, BENSON directed his first performative dance short film, Shaman, which premiered in February 2021. The film was exhibited as an installation at the MARKK Museum in Hamburg until the end of 2022 and was later screened publicly at Kampnagel (Hamburg), as well as in Austria and Maryland (USA). In June 2023, his first solo performance, SanctuarYIE, premiered at the A Wa Nibi Festival at Kampnagel, inviting audiences into a meditative and trance-like experience. Later that year, he appeared as both choreographer and performer in Naomi Kelechi Odhiambo's production Things We Don't Say at Kampnagel. In 2024, BENSON was selected for a residency in Malmö to further develop his new performance project [GN-z33/6°], which premiered in its full version in February 2026.
DYLAN HUNTER CHEE GREENE is an Asian American producer, instrumentalist, improvisor and composer from the Pacific and Atlantic ocean islands. Since leaving western classical music, he recorded, co-produced, and performed with sonic pioneers such as Maurice Louca, Maryem Saleh, Shahzad Ismaily, Kamilya Jubran, Morena Leraba. HHY & Kampala Unit. Arsenal Mikebe, Floyd Lavine, Kelman Duran, Jose Duluc, and Scotch Rolex - blending together emotional impact and culture for films, concert halls, and clubs.
In 2025, Dylan's primary projects, Sonic Interventions and Sera Kalo’s Ex.ii, both won Deutscher Jazz Preis awards after releasing debut albums he mixed. Next, he performed at beautiful sonic happenings such as Waking Life, Le Guess Who, XP in Saudi Arabia, and Nyege Nyege festival in Uganda. He is in the midst of launching a hybrid cultural production label and producing artists for an underground diasporic futurism called Radical Live Music.
