Twerkshop

Twerkshop

Twerkshop is a QTBIPOC-centred practice space that explores and celebrates twerking as a dance form and healing art, contributing to ongoing efforts to reclaim this dance style.

Twerkshop was initiated in 2023 by Romincio Cayol, Sarah Colombiana, Lateena Plummer, and Nimia Uloaku Gracious and has been held weekly ever since, led by rotating coaches.

The practice refers to contemporary Blackness with a strong connection to the aesthetics of Black women in pop culture (especially Jamaican female dancehall as well as Caribbean reggaeton and soca).

We practise hip isolations to different rhythms, learn step combinations and work together on twerking choreographies.

Initiated by Romincio Cayol, Lateena Plummer, Sarah Colombiana, Nimia Uloaku Gracious, Janny Michell Benitez (Chelly)
Hosted by Pink Nation

Romincio Cayol

Rominicio a 23-year-old Aquarius. Dancing has always been an innate part of him, never formally practiced since childhood. He began showcasing his skills at a young age, paused, and resumed after meeting Lateena. Originally from Saint Martin, he identifies as French due to the French side. He has performed frequently in Switzerland, including Zurich, Bern, Lausanne, Geneva, Yverdon, and internationally in Amsterdam and Germany.

Sarah Colombiana

Sarah Colombiana is a lash technician and dancer. Dance has always been an intrinsic part of who she is. It is a natural gift that she has possessed since her youth, and she has never needed formal training to express herself through movement. Her journey as a dancer for Lateena Plummer has taken me her to various stages in Switzerland and internationally.

Nimia Uloaku Gracious

Nimia Uloaku Gracious Nwaogu is a non-binary transfeminie transdisciplinary artist based in Zurich. Her artistic practice spans between story telling thorough different mediums like physical movement, text and the creation of soundscapes in the style of sonic collages. And on the other hand she is active in decolonial and transfuturistic social participatory arts by claiming inexcessible spaces and entering them with the QTBIPOC community.

Lateena Plummer

Lateena Plummer is a Jamaican, transgender singer, performer and activist, based in Zurich as political refugee since 2019. She wants to change the genre of dancehall completely, from a homophobic and sexist perspective into centering a LGBTQIA+ perspective. Since her first single Boom released, she gained a big following on social media and is known as Switzerland’s dancehall queen. Last year she released her first album Luxurious Legacy, a compilation of nine songs. In 2023 she has already performed eight live performances for example at m4music festival, which was aired on radio SRF, at Sedel Festival in Luzern and in Stall 6 of the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee.

Janny Michell Benitez (Chelly)

Janny Michell Benitez is a Swiss-Dominican multidimensional artist, dancer, alchemist, and healing artist, born in Barrio Sarmiento, San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic. With a background in pharmaceuticals and medical expertise, alongside a deep devotion to holistic wellbeing, she bridges science, art, music, and frequency into immersive experiences that awaken the body, liberate emotion, and reconnect people to their essence.Since 2023, she has been organizing workshops, ceremonies, talks, and creative healing experiences. In 2025, she founded DIVINE KITCHEN, a space where Caribbean Soulfood, nutrition, and community meet. She is also the host and coach of TwerkSesh at Tanzhaus Zürich, where twerking is explored as a holistic practice of empowerment and embodiment. Her project, called ARTESANA, is inspired by the revolutionary spirit of Comuna 13 in Medellín — rooted in transformation through awareness, integration, and artistic expression.

without registration

Tuesdays, 20:30 – 22:00

  • CHF 35 (negotiable in exceptional cases) / Subscription for 10 sessions for CHF 300

Duration:

1 hr 30 min

Open to all, no previous experience necessary. There is no expectation to move your body to all the moves. However, it is important to participate actively and not just watch.

Participants respect the approach of a QTBIPOC practice space. The space is open to non-QTBIPOC people.

Please send any questions or feedback to twerkshop@pinknation.ch.

Insurance is the responsibility of the participants.

Tanzhaus Zürich

Studio 1

Wheelchair accessible