Sonya Lindfors is an awardwinning Cameroonian/Finnish choreographer and artistic director who also works in facilitation, community organizing, and education. Lindfors’ recent works - One Drop (2023), common moves (2023), We Should All Be Dreaming, camouflage (2021), and Soft Variations Online (2020) - focus on questions of Blackness and Black body politics, representation and power structures, speculative futurities, and decolonial dreaming practices.On a broader scale, Lindfors divides her time between her own artistic work, educational initiatives, and her role as the artistic director of UrbanApa. In all her positions, she is dedicated to creating and facilitating anti-racist and feminist platforms, where a festival, performance, publication, or workshop can serve as a site for empowerment and radical collective dreaming.

Kai Merke (he/him) is a choreographer, dancer, and dramaturg specializing in interdisciplinary collaborations and transformative performance experiences. Kai integrates somatic embodiment, ecological awareness, and decolonial approaches in their artistic practice. With rigorous dramaturgical insight and embodied methods, kai seeks to dismantle experiences of alienation and cultivate deeper connections with our living environment.

Yong Sun Gullach is a Danish-Korean adoption activist and performance artist (b. 1967). Her overall aesthetic-political endeavours can be said to be grounded in a deep and persistent insistence that race, identity, gender, body, politics, adoption and symbolic violence and trauma are intersectionally linked. This insistence is concretised through a double articulation of bodily practices (performance and installations) and textual entities that take the form of prose poems, directorial remarks or reflective essayistic texts. This art practice, or set of practices, is motivated by an investigation of identity that balances on the border between the personal and the political.

Vala T. Foltyn, performance artist, queer witch, art researcher and founder of Lamella, a queer art house in Poland. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Artistic Research from Malmö Art Academy in June 2022. Foltyn was an artist in residency at Art Hub Copenhagen and published the book ‘Szwedzka 8’ in 2024. She has exhibited and performed at Tallinn Art Hall, Fondazione Giuliani in Rome, Zachęta Gallery, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Parliament of Bodies by Paul Preciado at Bergen Assembly and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. She currently lives in Copenhagen.

Jupiter Child is a Mozambican-born performing artist based in Denmark. Their artistic practice explores themes of migration, identity and cultural integration with a particular focus on decolonial perspectives and personal narratives. Through both visual and performance art, Jupiter Child uses their experiences to create immersive, thought-provoking works that highlight the intersections between language, belonging and self-expression.

French dance performer, teacher & choreographerwith roots in Central African Republic.

Photo: Ave Maria Nielsen

Abdul Dube (he/they) is born in '||Hui !Gais' indigenous Khoe language meaning "where clouds gather." Now known only as  “(Cape Town)” South Africa.

Abdul Dube is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, curator and workshop facilitator based in Aarhus, Denmark. His work concerns questions of multicultural belonging, racism and resistance, intersectional solidarity, heritage, sustainability aka survival, Black imagination and artivism.

Abdul’s related work includes facilitating an "Antiblack racism in our public archives" workshop with Black Archives Sweden; teaching, writing and creating Zines for the Horizon-2020 funded project European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities; and Creative Liaison to the Aros Art Museum Education Department 2019-2020, visual harvestor and facilitator with the indonesian collective Ruangrupa for 2022 documenta15.

Abdul also keeps to an artistic praxis as print maker, concentrating on lino and silkscreen as a means of decompression after intense facilitation work. Most recent he has endevoured into the realm of audio/sonic and audio documentary as another tool for storytelling and has embarked on the “droster aesthetica series” looking at modern day maroons, quilombos and drosters.

Marie Kaae is a Danish choreographer and dancer whose work centres on the genres of house dance and hip hop – and how an authentic representation of these genres can be expressed in the performing arts. As the child of an African jazz musician, the relationship between music and movement is a natural focal point for her practice, as in the project WIRED, where the cause-and-effect relationship between them was the subject of exploration.