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Episode 4. Swop - Dancing across borders

June 20, 2020 • Skånes Dansteater • Season 1 • Episode 4

An episode about SWOP Dance Club. A club where young asylum seekers and young people living in Skåne, with all kinds of cultural backgrounds and cultural traditions, meet to create things together through dance. Atoosa Farahmand, Dina Matskevich and Mostafa Jalali Farahani share their SWOP experiences and talks to Kit Brown about the power of dancing together.

You’ll also get to listen to a brief excerpt of 1000 Tapesh, a collaboration between Swop dance club and choreographer Kristine Illum in 2017.

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Host: Kit Brown, dancer, Skånes Dansteater.
Guests: Atoosa Farahmand, project leader, Skånes Dansteater. Dina Matskevich, Mostafa Jalali Farahani, Swop.
Music: Articulate Silences, Pt. 1, Stars Of The Lid. MusicShad Afghani 2016,
Farshad Bang.
Jingle: Anders Ortman.
Editors: Kit Brown, Samuel Denton.