18.5.2024 & 20.5.2024

4 Categories – Outstanding Battle Guests & Performer

Culture Concept – Hip Hop – Afro Fusion – Dancehall

Battles Überschrift

1VS1 AFRO FUSION

Judges:

Winner: Steph Chris Brown

Music by Kurtyswift 

1VS1 DANCEHALL

Judges:

Winner: Veronica

Music by Kurtyswift 

1VS1 HIP HOP

Judges:

Winner: Erick Sama

Music by DJ Fayme

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Battle Guests

Culture Concept Round 1 - CDC 2023

Last year we introduced you to Culture Dance Night, this year we did it again as part of a new format:

Spot On! The Show.

on Monday, May 20th 2024, at 4 p.m.

We curated a series of performances for a unique night full of dance in many of its beautiful forms as well live music. While many performances were highlighting some of the great talents based in Berlin and Germany, we also invited international guests to our Culture Dance Night stage.

CDC Performers

Queens Empire is a group of dancers located all around Northrine Westphalia. All dancers have different bases as dancestyles. The agegroup reaches from 16-38. Queens Empire has been initiated by their Choreographer Becky Bonsu Brown.
Black Pearl is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist, dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director. As a researcher, Black Pearl explores the use of the body as an artistic and political platform to subvert the invisibility of trans entities through their life stories. She aims to deconstruct the colonial narrative of all classical forms of movement and, through her body experiences, translate potentialities and bring to light aspects related to the representation and representativeness of dissident bodies in art.
Connecting Family is a dance community located in Bielefeld, NRW. They focus on different african dancestyles and jamaican Dancehall. Their goal is to connect and empower passionate people in their region through exchange and share of knowledge.
AfroQueens is an all female African company based in London, UK. With an innovative approach to African Dance, values that seek to uphold the importance of cultural preservation and community as well as empowering women in dance; AfroQueens is led by Olu Alatise aka Miss Lulu Creates.
moving between London and Berlin, she found a way to reconcile her ever-changing state of residence; of belonging and well being with music & poetry. She started performing spoken words and rapping locally and singing in church choir at the age of 11. Since then has developed into a songwriter, musician, recording artist, rapper, poet and is continuously exploring her world of options. Be prepared for her personal experiences transported into the sound of the early 2000s and R&B.
has been dancing together since 2016. They share a deep appreciation and love for Jamaican culture. Centering respect for the culture they love to spread their energy through energetic movements. For them it is all about the vibes, energy, enjoyment and storytelling.
is a Flamenco dancer and choreographer from Berlin. She started training Flamenco at 5 years old. Later in 2018 she moved to Madrid where she visited the Flamenco School “Amor de Dios”. In 2020 she began her studies in Interpretation and Choreography at the “Conservatori Superior de Dansa”. Moving through different professional Flamenco spaces and participating in research she moved back to Berlin, now teaching Flamenco.
is a dancer from the Colombian Caribbean. She started dancing Caribbean dances that used drums from African cultures. She then began to experience Hip Hop Freestyle and Dancehall which became her main styles. She won her first competition with the performance “Salvaje” at Maracaibo Dance Show 2013. And in 2018 she won “I am Dance” at “We are Stockholm Festival”. Carolyn Gonve's main goal as an artist is to be free in what she does and to express what she feels openly.
is a Chilean dancer and choreographer who has collaborated with important independent choreographers and companies in Chile. After moving to Berlin in 2018 she focused on realizing her own projects. In 2022 she premiered her Solo “Suspended Earth” and in July 2023 she premiered her newest project “LATINX”.
are dynamic Afro-Contemporary dancers blending their rich heritage with a background steeped in hip-hop culture. With electrifying moves and infectious energy, they captivate audiences worldwide, transcending boundaries and celebrating diversity through the universal language of dance.
grew up in a family of musicians and has been singing for as long as she can remember. She started writing her first songs at the age of 8. From an early age, she was able to witness her parents' band rehearsals and listened to her grandfather's recordings of South African freedom songs, which ultimately inspired Naeemah to want to be on stage and sing. With her music, the singer likes to combine several genres such as soul, R&B and pop.
is a friend group from Berlin who loves to move and groove together. With 9 of them in the mix, they are all about blending Afro Fusion and Hip Hop into something fresh and fun. Catch them at the CDC festival, where they will be bringing their vibe to the stage.
is a dancer who started her soul healing journey with rhythm, dance and yoga in 2020. For her dance is a form of medicine and soul expression. She dives deep into the beauty of sweet melodies and heals herself surrounded by this precious artform. Her first stage performance happened in 2022. Joining the CDC stage will be one of her first big performances.
are two dance communities based in lower Saxony which are coming together for this performance. We are a diverse dancommunity led by two choreographers. Antoine Kodjo Edoh born and raised in Togo and Serge Alain Irie, born and raised in Ivory Coast. The goal is to come together and connect the German Afro Dance scene.

CDC Location

Gemeinschaftshaus Gropiusstadt, Bat-Yam-Platz 1, 12353 Berlin
Metro: U7 Lipschitzallee
Car: Navigation to Lipschitzallee 68, parking spot next to the car dealer
The venue is accessible barrier free.

Spot on – The Show
Heimathafen Neukölln
Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin
Metro: U7 Karl-Marx-Straße
Car: Navigation to Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 parking spots on the road and the neighborhood
The venue is accessible barrier free.