Aurelia Dey & Avenue
Dance, afrobeats, dancehall music and dramaturgy, life-affirming and thought-provoking.
Aurelia Dey is a multi-artist who plays Afrobeats, reggae, dancehall and Nordic & Ghanaian traditional music, acts and choreographs. Aurelia creates an awareness of diversity and inclusion and examines intersectionality in art forms, including her Ghanaian heritage as a starting point. She directs and implements cross-genre projects in the storytelling tradition with acting, music, dance and urgent messages. Aurelia and her live band and dancers in Avenue have during 2023 toured Sweden and Europe with the concert experience "Community Carries Legacy".
When she is not making music, Aurelia Dey spends her time working with the National Black Theater of Sweden where she choreographs, writes scripts and acts.
Avenue & Community Carrie's legacy
The core of big band Avenue is Nordic folk music that meets Afro-Caribbean rhythms. The contrasts create a musical experience with musical styles such as Afrobeat, reggae, dancehall, Nordic folk and Ghanaian highlife boiled down in dramaturgical performances. The atmospheres of the soundscape alternate between fragile, intimate, powerful and dynamic moods with a foundation in identity-strengthening texts. "Community carries legacy" is an Afrofuturist inspiring holistic performance with themes of identity, crying and the strong black woman, legacy and healing.
Afrobeats Invasion is a project for young people and young adults where anti-racism and culture work together. The pilot project was carried out in September 2021 in Gothenburg with the support of the Swedish Music Agency and the City of Gothenburg. The whole thing with Afrobeats Invasion is that participating dancers, artists, musicians and producers should network and share experiences to form a better world.
Aurelia Dey & The Neighbors' activities in the genre of afrobeats and dancehall unite in this project young people with different class affiliations and backgrounds through music, dance, workshops, conversations, discussions and together produce a performance for the public with an anti-racist value base.
Aurelia Dey also does Creative School projects and is included in Kulturkatalogen Väst with the performance Afrobeat Invasion: https://www.kulturkatalogenvast.org/Arrangemang/id/3706