Ambra Succi ^(SWE) LISTEN 13-15 September 2018

Programme

Hip-hop, film, dancehall, spoken word, pop and house in a melancholic and powerful performance about the violence that happens all around us; at home, at school, on the street. Ambra Succi, known from Bounce, has a powerful belief in a better future. In "LISTEN" she highlights the personal stories of the dancers. Farzad Ahmed, Rebecca Livaniou, Danielle Lundgren, Jennifer Ellen Pacaanas and Amelis Riquelme Nicoletti.
The show also features the singer Kristin Amparo with the songs "I can't stand it but I never stop fighting" and "My longing".. For the first time, Ambra Succi has composed all the other music herself.

"We have been silent for too long, carrying these secrets of shame. The fear of how people you care about will react. How they will change their behaviour and how they will see you with new eyes. But the shame should be borne by the perpetrators. And those around them who didn't see all the cries for help and warning signs and take action. These monsters that now roam freely in our society are our creation and responsibility.

I still struggle today, despite all the violence I experienced, to love myself and to forgive those who let their demons go beyond me. We must become more sensitive, empathise and always LISTEN! In the end, we all feel bad about violence in any form. Both victims and perpetrators need help out of the darkness." - Ambra Succi

Debriefing 13 Sep

The skewed image of the suburbs - a dialogue between
Ambra Succi and Professor Jerzy Sarnecki.

Ambra Succi

Ambra Succi was born in Helsinki to a Finnish mother and Italian father. She came to Sweden in 1997 to join the Ballet Academy. Ambra was one of the founding members of the successful street dance group Bounce. She is also the choreographer behind, among other things, Loreen's smash hit. Euphoria, rock opera American idiots, opera Carmen. In addition to all freelance assignments for Sweden's artistic elite, she runs the dance school DIAMBRA and the company Crazy Artist Movement. At Dansens Hus she has previously shown her "Striving to achieve" - a performance about Ambra's own life journey.

Kristin Amparo

Kristin Amparo got her big break in the summer of 2014 with her chart-topping hit. "Your soldier" which she wrote and sang together with the artist Albino. Kristin Amparo has worked with much of the Swedish music elite, including Nina Persson of the Cardigans, Oskar Linnros and Janne Schaffer. She moves freely between genres and has been a strong force behind the hip hop collective. Femtastic, with several radio hits together with Swedish rap phenomenon Cleo. Kristin also has a background in jazz education at the Royal College of Music.

Jerzy Sarnecki

Jerzy Sarnecki has worked as an investigator at the City of Stockholm and Head of Investigation at the Crime Prevention Council. In 1993 he was appointed by the government as Professor of General Criminology and Head of the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University. He has published more than 150 books, research reports, scientific articles, etc.