My work as a choreographer
Blomdanser
Blomdanser (flowerdances) is a performance for 4-7 year old children. Toghether with Rebecca the audience gets to help the flowers that lost their colors.
Koreograf: Ama Kyei
Dansare: Rebecca Livaniou
Medskapande: Fredrika Burvall, Love Andersson
Film: Savanna Hanneryd
Finansierat av Konstnärsnämnden
ሙሉkokonainenتمامی
picture by Ying Chouhan
ሙሉkokonainenتمامی
is about adapting the white room to us. It's about taking over the room, filling it. It's about being there for each other, backing each other, strengthening each other. It's about our siblings. ሙሉ kokonainen تمامی is not an explanation, it is not a display of our traumas, it is an experience that is for us.
Choreographed and danced by: Afra Hosseini, Judith Tena, Aida Tervo, Ama Kyei
Financed by: Konstnärsnämnden
Vita Strumpor
Vita Srumpor is an interactive show for children aged 4-7.
Vita Strumpor is an interactive show for children aged 4-7 years. The dance game Vita Strumpor has been the world around and met a lot of children. But unfortunately Vita Strumpor has to fall asleep after every game, and then it forgets al the children it has met. To awaken its memory the audience and the dancer gets to play a game with it. This task takes the audience and the dancer on an adventure where the game makes the participants move, memorize a dance & song rhyme, and put together different letters different words. The performance is interactive. We work in the borderland of a performance, dance session and concert.
The piece will tour in Botkyrka, Järfalla, Sandviken and Ljusdal in 2022
Concept: Ama Kyei
Dance: Ama Kyei
Music and co-work: Sara Celaya, Fredrika Burvall
Financing: Botkyrka Kreativa Fonden, Kulturådet
Picture: Afra Hosseini
Watch trailer here
Danskartan
`Danskartan` is an adaption of `Vita Strumpor` to be performed at a preschool context.
Danskartan is a dancesession for children of the age 5-9. The dancer leads the participants the through various dance games and exercices with the help of the colorful fabricmap. The piece had its premier i Botkyrka in Augusti 2021
Concept and fabric: Ama Kyei
Dancer: Ama Kyei
Duration: 20 minutes
Financing: Botkyrka Kreativa Fonden
Picture: Ahmed Ali
Watch trailer here
እህቴMun siskoخواهر من
እህቴMun siskoخواهر من, is about healing, It is about preparing, creating strategies for coping with minority stress. It is about sharing experiences . It's about being there for each other, backing each other. It's about our sisterhood. The piece had its premier at Site in September 2020.
Choreogaphy and dance by: Afra Hosseini, Aida Tervo, Judith Tena and Ama Kyei
say my name, (say my name), Say my name (say my name)
Say my name (say my name)
Say my name (say my name) was a performance based on the frustration of studying at The university of dance and circus in Stockholm and discovering the exclusion of people of color, both in the institution and in the Swedish dance performance field in general. This piece was created in 2019 as a part of our studies.
Coreography and dance: Afra Hosseini, Love Andersson and Karin Raudsepp, Ama Kyei
Mentorship: Linda Adami, BamBam Frost
My work as a dancer
Lucky numbers
by Stina Nyberg
In Lucky numbers the dancers get through everyday relationships with warmth and humor. There will be chopped up dance styles and rapid changes - all in a meeting between choreography, textile art and sporty humor to the club's pumping base. A bit like stepping into a world where all the senses become alive.
Koreografi: Stina Nyberg
Dansare: Lisa Janbell och Ama Kyei
Konstnärligt teamLjusdesign, scenografi och kostymdesign: Josefin Hinders
Textilkonst och kostymdesign: Anna Nordström
Musik: Hermione Frank aka rRoxymore
Producent: Riksteatern
Picture: RES
Premier 28.9.21 @ Vitlycke - Centre for Preforming Arts, Tanumshede, Tanum
more info here
Transsession by Lisa Janbell
Transsessio was one of the pieces Lisa Janbell
choreographed and staged at Misschiefs takeover at Plattan in in June 2021
Choreographer: Lisa Janbell
Dancers: Bianca Traum, Cecilia Redhe, Dafne Gian, Mariê Mazer, Lena Bergstedt
Lightdesign Timothy Wilson
LIVE dj Jessie Granqvist
Art (pyramids) Malou Bergman
Production assistent Kajsa Lorentzon
Pictures: Kajsa Lorentzon
AfroSwede by John-Paul Zaccarini
A transmission from a FutureBlackSpace Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
Concept/Written by John-Paul Zaccarini Directed by Erwin Semler
Choreographed by John-Paul Zaccarini
Music and Sound design by Toubab Holmes Dancers: Mike Gamble Danne Dahlin Ama Kyei Felicia Rivera Cetre Louie Indriana Adam Seid Thair
Director of Photography - Erwin Semler & Joakim Envik Karlsson
Stylist - Camilla Wellton Production
Manager - Mats Ivarsson
Production Assistent - Jonathan Morell
Edit - Erwin Semler
Colorist - Joakim Envik Karlsson
Special thanks to Anna Lindell, Rolf Hallström, Andreas Karlsson
Picture: Jonathan Morell
Watch video here
Untitled (Entitled) by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn
Nguyễns konst uppmärksammar vår tids konstruktion av identitet och belyser dolda maktstrukturer. I till synes vardagliga händelser och historier visar hon på politisk relevans. Verket Untitled (Entitled) bygger på intervjuer med personer med invandrarbakgrund som känt sig tvingade att byta namn i ett försök att undgå diskriminering. I en textbaserad installation, bestående av rörliga strukturer med lentikulärtryck, visas de medverkandes namn enligt modersmålet, men också deras tagna västerländska namn. Vid ett antal tillfällen under utställningens gång kommer dansare att aktivera installationen i form av en performance, koreograferad av Nguyễn, och som har sitt uruppförande på Bonniers Konsthall. Dansarna rör sig till musik komponerad av enkla fraser som används vid språkinlärning, till exempel ”jag heter”.
Dans: Gülbeden Kulbay, Ama Kyei, Mona Namer, Andrea Svensson
Tekniker: Isak Nordell
Stylist: Amanda Ferrada
Grafisk form: Chris Lee
Musik: Thunder Tillman
Röster: Rob Andersson, Pontus Berghe, Erola Boix, Maj Hasager, Riccardo Malacalza, Elena Strempek, Oscar TillmBan, Casey Wei
Picture: Jean Baptiste Béranger
Crawling by Natália Rebelo
Crawling is a performance that investigates the feeling of being seen and followed. Through the insistence of specific movements, stages of repetition are built and form a choreography that has nervousness, compulsions and pleasing games as its foundation. The piece was performed at My wild flag festival at MDT in September 2021
Choreographer: Natália Rebelo.
Performers: Ama Kyei, Heta Asikainen
Picture: Natália Rebelo
Black Ocean by Josette Bushell-Mingo
BLACK OCEAN is an open jazz space of stories, internal landscapes, the worlds of Afrofuturism, fragmented texts and ghosts of the past and present – the performance meets blackness, meets ritual, meets memory, meets future. Black Ocean was a part of "The door of no return" at Daramaten in October 2020.
Director: Josette Bushell-Mingo
Music : Marque Gilmore
Text: Senait Imbaye, Raymond Peroti, Nancy Ofori, Kayo Mpoyi
Dance/perforance: Tarika Wahlberg, Ama Kyei, Ruben Karsberg, Binyam Haile
Video: Lamin Daniel Jadama
Picture: Ahmed Ali
Threshold by Maria Wahlberg
Threshold is an advitersement for Ganni.
202020 DANCE FILM -THRESHOLD Stockholm Co-directed by Maria “Decida” Wahlberg @decida & Åsa Riton @a_s_a_r_i_t_o_n Concept by MOON @moon_intl Music by @mobilegirl and @ouri.riou Styling, Emelie Johansson @emelierjohansson Improvisation dancers, Bianca, Mona, Ama & Madilou Editing, Kim Ramsell Grade & online, Oskar Gullstrand Make Up & Hair Martin Sundquist Production assistants, Mira Bergh Edenborg & Jose n Zachrisson
First picture: Ganni
Second picture: Maria Wahlberg
Watch video here
Skiftet av Johanna Fröjd
With its origin to the house dance tradition, the dancers create a playful space to explore the importance of a rite in a collective celebration and healing.
If a rite is extinguished in one place, it will occur in another
In the performance Shiftet, the dancers examine what it means to get together, create symbols and celebrate life. By paying attention to details and exploring the power of seductive and sensual grooves, the Shift is about the sanctity of the body and mind as well as being able to transform the dramatic lives of human and the world. The piece was planned to have premier in Decemeber 2020 but is postponed to October 2021. Fanni Ijäs will substitute for Ama at the premier.
Choreoghapher: Johanna Fröjd
Dancers: Ama Kyei, Mona Namér, Johanna Fröjd, Fanni Ijäs
Sound: Diane Assiri
Costume: Liselotte Bramstång
Film/Picture: Jonath Mathew
Co-production: Dansens Hus, Riksteatern Hallunda, Västmanlandsmusiken, Sala kommun, Camelonterna
Producer : Co-producing parties & Kulturrådet
HEARTH, Aurore D`Audiffret
HEARTH was Aurore d´Audiffrets Degree Project when she gratuated from The University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm 2019
Choreographer: Aurore d´Audiffret
Dancers: Fredriva Burvall, Danilo Alexandre, Ama Kyei
Substitute dancer for JUCK
Ama was a substitute dancer for JUCK in Göteborg and Helsinki, Finland during May and June 2019
Read more about the amazing collective JUCK here