Yami “Rowdy” Löfvenberg is a movement and theatre director, and a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of dance, theatre and cross-arts. Between making her own work, Yami mentors, educate and deliver workshops nationally and internationally. She is the lecturer on the first-ever Hip-Hop module at Trinity Laban Dance Conservatoire. A British Council and Arts Council England recipient, Howard Davies Emerging Directors Grant Recipient, One Dance UK DAD Trailblazer Fellow, Marion North Recipient, and a Talawa Make Artist. She was on the creative choreographic team for the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony and is a member of the internationally acclaimed performance collective Hot Brown Honey.

Movement Director credits include: Roundabout 22 (Paines Plough); The Concrete Jungle book (Pleasance); Kabul Goes Pop (Brixton House); Human Nurture (Theatre Centre/Sheffield Theatre); Athena (The Yard); Notes on Grief (Manchester International Festival); Rare Earth Mettle, Living Newspaper (Royal Court); Fuck You Pay Me (Bunker); Breakin’ Convention (Sadler’s Wells); Talawa TYPT (Hackney Showrooms); Boat (BAC)

Director credits include: Fierce Flow (Hippodrome Birmingham); Kind of Woman (Camden People’s Theatre), Afroabelhas (Roundhouse/British Council/Tempo Festival, Brazil)

Assistant Director/Choreographer credits include: Hive City Legacy (Roundhouse/Home/Millennium)

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