Twerkshop

Twerkshop

The Twerkshop is a QTBIPOC centred community practice space that explores the history of twerking as a dance form, with the aim of preserving knowledge and contributing to ongoing efforts to reclaim this dance style.

The practice is rooted in a somatic approach while engaging with contemporary Blackness, drawing strongly on the aesthetics of Black women in popular culture, particularly Jamaican Dancehall.

Together, we explore hip isolations across different rhythms, acrobatic movements, lap dance, and collaborative twerking choreographies. There is no expectation to move your body if you do not wish to.

Guided by Lateena Plummer, Romincio Cayol and Sarah Franchesca.
Hosted by Nimia Gracious in collaboration with experi_betriebsbüro.

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.

without registration

Tuesdays, 20:30 – 22:00

  • CHF 35

Duration:

1 hr 30 min

Open to everyone. No previous experience necessary.

Insurance is the responsibility of the participants.

Free for QTBIPOC participants | Donation

Tanzhaus Zürich

Studio 1

Wheelchair accessible