Nadia Sewnauth
Nadia is a Hip-Hop Dance Artist from Dumbarton, Scotland specialising in Funkstyles. She is a member of Dimestop, a Scottish Popping Collective formed in 2013. Her aim is bringing funkstyles to the local community in a preserved format and she has been sharing knowledge at her dance school Funk Forever since 2013. She is currently bringing her practice to a wider audience by exploring choreography and performance. This takes influences from her own life, her recent experiences of motherhood and broader issues facing women, mothers and multi ethnic people in hip-hop, dance, Scotland and society as whole.
Current projects are research and development of her solo hip hop dance theatre piece "My Maw is a Robot" which has recently been funded by Creative Scotland's Open Fund to further develop the piece for a younger audience. This involves working with and performing in local schools. More recently she has worked with Clifftop Projects based in Dumbarton West to deliver workshops for Youth Art Clubs and their Intergenerational Dance Company.
She also collaborates with Shelltoe Mel on the Female Funk Fruition Project running in Glasgow. This was recently started up following funding through Sunny Govan's Hip Hop fund and provides monthly hip hop dance sessions for females (and identifying females) over 12 years. The objective is to provide a fun and relaxed environment where you can learn new skills in a safe place.
Nadia is currently Artist in Residence at Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock (June- September 2023) where she is running a project to develop relations with new audiences in the area. She aims to do so by engaging with 0-12 year old young people and their families through Hip Hop Movement sessions in the centre and the community of Inverclyde. Funded by Inverclyde Culture Collective.