Startpunkt of Bridging Legacies: Wir beginnen damit, unsere eigene Stimme zu entdecken. In diesem Workshop mit Anna Chiedza Spörri vertiefen die Teilnehmenden ihre Schreibkunst und entwickeln eigene Poetry-Texte, die an der Poetry Night präsentiert werden. Gemeinsam schaffen wir einen Raum, in dem Sprache zur Brücke wird.
Für: Menschen, die Rassismus erfahren (BiPOC)
Anna Spörri is a movement artist, choreographer, director and activist working between Switzerland and London.
Her body language can be expressive and powerful, as well as soft and fluid. She has a unique abilityto give her emotions shape through movement and words. She fuses different dance styles to create her own movement and experiments with text and spoken word to find various forms of expression.
Anna completed the international training program at Peri Dance in New York, in Los Angeles she attended two programs of the choreographer Rhapsody James, a pioneer of the street dance scene. She has trained in renowned studios in New York, Los Angeles and London. She recently completed a training program at École des Sables in Senegal.
At the age of twenty, Anna co-founded the dance companies«Urban Rebels»and«Unusual» and has been training young TINFAs ever since. She is also a founding member and core part of developing Company MEK which has ade a name for itself through their innovative pieces. Her versatility enables her to dance for commercial providers and for contemporary as well as hip hop choreographers. She is currently on tour with her first own production PERSPECTIVES which she was nominated for PREMIO Schweiz –an award for upcoming performing artists.
In 2024 she is also touring with Father Politics by Company MEK as well as Drzwüsche a Duo she choreographed in 2021and has been selected by Pro Helvetia for the UK residencies at Brixton House.