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DANCE IS LIFE! LIFE IS MUSIC!Mia is a dancer, choreographer, danceteacher and producer specialized in dance and music from Guina-Conakry and Senegal in Westafrica. She has been teaching traditional dance since 1995! Working, dancing, choreographing she has created her own styles in afrorelated dance: Afrofunk which is a mix of westafrican dancetechnique and hiphop. Afro Trixmix where traditional steps changes into new movements to livemusic as drumset, sampler and different sorts of rythmic instruments. Innovation, inspiration and improvisation!!!Mias base is Stockholm but she has lived and danced in Guinea-Conakry, France and Germany. She also spent time dancing in Senegal and the US.Mia choreograped and toured in Sweden with the danceperformances "BPM, fotsteg och hjärtslag" (BPM, footsteps and heartbeats) 2000-2003 and "Under" (Miracles) 2002.She choreographs at festivals, with musikgroups and with cirkusgroups.She organizes and produces workshops and dancecamps. She often organizes her projects through Doundounbah; a music and dancecommunity.The winter 2007 she choreographed and danced with Vieux Sagna, the dancer of Senegalese singer Cuomba Gawlo in On the Moove 2007, with Lisa Ladbergs music and dance-company Nu Moove. She also danced/choreographed in a mixshow for children where dance, music and handcraft were the mainthemes (Sinnenas Äventyr) Länsmusiken 2006.Autumn 2008 -DMC - VÅGA VILJA - En saga om att välja, a dancetheater-performance for children (and adults) 7-9 years.Summerclasses/Sommarkurser june 2008 at Fryshuset, Stockholm. Scandinavian Afro Dance Camp 26-30 august!!! The guest teachers are Mouminatou Camara (Guinea/NY, USA) and Vieux Sagna (Senegal/UK)!!! Check Mias Blogg for more info!Mia also works with artistcoordination at Stockholm Jazz Festival and as backstagecoordinator at Stockholms Kulturfestival.