Shelly Ohene-Nyako, Founder of Shefroyan production & of Cie Shefroyan

Since 2020, Shelly has been dancing for the project Sacre, the Rite of Spring by Stavinski, produced by Sadlers Wells London, the foundation Pina Bausch Wuppertal and Ecole des Sables Dakar. She is currently touring with 37 other African dancers around the world. 

Her primary goal, is to create work that is supported by funds, art councils and sponsors to be able to create dance jobs between Africa and Europe.

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Marion Cherix, Co-founder of Cie Shefroyan

Marion Cherix is a Swiss dancer and artist based in Geneva. 

She has been dancing since the age of 11 and teaching for 9 years.Following her training in Kundalini yoga (Ashram Shaktiom, Mexico) and alternative medicine (Reiki Shamballa with Catherine Kamala Chatelain, Suisse), she combines dance and therapy through breathing techniques, connection and awareness of her body and movement development.

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Freya Jenkin, Member of the Residency

Her recent three years have been fulfilled by working collaboratively with companies of multi-disciplinary artists such as Rosemary lee, InForMotion dance and theater company, Greorgina Starr, Dance Strong Company .They are all rooted in various disciplines from contemporary, experimental, and hip hop dances to spoken word, visual arts and music. Subjecting herself to many beautiful cultures of the world and strengthening her faith, she believes healing will happen through introspection and physical release. Ancestral dance, chanting and song, meditation techniques, creating for benefit will grant the space to integrate the outer experience with our inner world.

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Nela Elle, Member of the Residency

Nela Elle, is a Cameroonian Movement artist based in Ghana. She has been dancing professionally for the past 12 years starting off as a hip hop dancer and slowly diversifying into various styles, alongside other movement techniques which have helped craft her unique style. Her style is more experimental, as it combines techniques from dance, yoga and fitness to create movement which helps the person Connect more with themselves (which helps people grow a deeper mind-body connection) and gain deeper self-awareness, hence aiding them to understand themselves enough (as well as giving them the tools) to achieve self-healing and therapy.

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Alina Maria Veeser, Member of the residency

Alina Maria Veeser is a German-born psychomotor therapist, stylist and textile designer, and amateur dancer working and residing in Ghana.

She opened her psychomotricity practice in 2019 in Accra to welcome her patients and continues to collaborate with medical and educational institutions to promote the psychomotor approach in Ghana.

Her practice focuses mainly on body mediation (dance, body expression), artistic mediation (clay modeling, painting) and expressive mediation (mime and theater) as well as relaxation (Static therapeutic relaxation according to the GB method Soubiran and the Jacobson method, dynamic relaxation inspired by body practices such as Qi-Gong and Hâta Yoga, and aquatic relaxation).