Darold Alexander is from New Orleans, Louisiana, and we have met at Herräng.He is a MC and a frontman for a few bands & a very prominent person of Herräng 2024, as you might recall.We talked about dance as escape (from responsibilities, work,
The first episode of the new season of acityforyou. For the upcoming episodes we will be talking about dance in the city!In this episode #138 we will be exploring BLUES and how this dance is experienced in different cities, partilucarly in He
We have met with Anastasia Karachristou at Herräng, where we were both volunteering and, of course, dancing. So this episode is with a very sleep deprived version of Anastasia. She is a music teacher and she plays in the children's theatre in A
Lizaveta was born and raised in Belarus, and lived in different European cities in the past years. She is a mathematician and a blues dancer. We have met at the Stockholm Blues Festival and recorded the episode right there.We talked about:💡
Angela is originally from Peru, and she moved to Sweden 2 years ago. A criminal lawyer by profession, working currently as a team leader. She considers herself a traveller, she has visited more than 20 countries and islands, the longest trip be
Yusuf Hussein is 21 years old, born and raised in Järva, Rinkeby. He is a person of many interest - a filmmaker, a director, a poet, an engineer student, and an executive director of a creative platform “Rise and Shoot”. We met at an event in
Poppy works as a lighting designer in London. She grew up in a small village near Wales, Ewyas Harold. We met while studying at UWE Bristol and we were even sharing a flat for one year. So imagine how happy we were to meet one another again aft
The episode was recorded in Tel Aviv, during my short stay there.Jane was born in a small Russian town, then has been studying in Ufa, after which she moved to Shenzhen, China. During the pandemic she moved to Pardesiya, Israel. She likes to c
We know each other with Katerina since early childhood and until we both moved to study in the UK, we had only been meeting in Cyprus, once a year. And now, during my short visit to Cyprus, we meet again!Katerina was born and raised in Cyprus,
Sezel is currently working at Alva Labs as a customer success manager. She is originally from Bangalore, in South India - the “Silicon Valley” of India and is currently living in Kista - which is also sometimes called the Swedish “Silicon Valle
Johanna and Tobias are landscape architects at Nyréns Arkitektkontor in Stockholm. They were both working on the Yoga Paviljong project in Vasaparken, where we have done the recording this episode.Some of the points we have touched upon:💡 Y
Ursula has always been dancing and cycling (she made it through 31 countries on a bike so far...). She has been working as a teacher, as a manager and now for 28 past years she has been a speech and language therapist in Germany.We were record
Güney is from İzmir, he has been living in Istanbul for 12 years now, 7 of which that he has been doing jazz dances, lindy hop is particular. It is his 3rd time in Herräng, the Dance Camp in the small village of Sweden. He is also a lawyer, jus
Лариса родилась в Санкт-Петербурге и переехала в Швецию 2 года назад. По первому образованию она инженер по охране труда, по второму - дизайнер интерьеров. В Питере она работала в МЧС, отвечала за оповещения о погоде.Некоторые из тем, которых
Seth is a lighting designer and a (pseudo)light artist. He worked for the past 10 years in New York as a gaffer for film & television, moved to Sweden less than a year ago. Our conversation started from me visiting his master thesis at KTH and
Rodrigo is working at KTH as the program director of a Masters program in Architectural Lighting Design, teaching students lighting and daylighting. I had a chance to have an informal chat with his as a part of this podcast a year after having
We have recorded this episode at Münchenbryggeriet, a beautiful building with curious history so I felt it is worth mentioning.Joachim works as a landscape engineer at Outer Space arkitekter. He was born and raised in Stockholm. Joachim has be
Toufik is an educator. He enjoys travelling and learning as much as possible. He lived in Lebanon as a kid, became a chemistry teacher, was attracted by the field of education, then specialised in game design and human social skills.We have t
Martynas is an urban designer and planner. He graduated from Delft Institute of Technology (TU Delft) as an urbanist, and the worked in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Then came back to Lithuania and started his own studio (http://mmap.lt), in which t
Лена родом из Киева (там сейчас живут её родители и большинство родственников). Она профессиональный фотограф, и видит город, в основном, через призму фото искусства. Мы говорили про города, с которыми Лена связана воспоминаниями — Копенгаген,
Polina has been living in Stockholm for the past 9 years, and she devoted almost all of that time to leading guided tours in the city — in English, French and Russian. She is also a teacher of several languages. Check out her blog to know more.
! This episode has been recorded on a Wednesday evening, February 23rd. Since then the world has changed, so it feels. I can understand people who might find this content irrelevant at the moment, but I have come to a decision to post this epis
Amanda is a Master student at the Stockholm School of Economics. She is originally American, grew up in the bay area, in the town called Saratoga, CA. She did her Bachelor in MIT in Cambridge, MA, spending 1 year in Cambridge in the UK. Let the
[This episode is in Russian. English episode will follow next week]Полина живёт в Мальмё уже 7 лет, занимается СММ, любит текст и книги. Вся ещё жизнь строится вокруг текстов и историй. Полина приехала в Стокгольм на выходные, и мы с ней успе
Ashot is originally from Moldova with roots from different places, currently working with IT and enjoys social interaction. He has been on the radio, theatre, film voiceovers etc before and enjoys human interaction.Thoughts and topics discuss