Kit Brown (he/him/his) has been a dancer at Skånes Dansteater since 2015.
He works across a breadth of practices — as performer, maker, teacher, podcaster, and audio describer — and is interested in the social implications of dancing together: in finding new and better ways to meet, co-create, and build community around dance.
He trained at London Contemporary Dance School, graduating with an MA in Contemporary Dance, and has performed work by Marina Mascarell, Tilman O’Donnell, Tina Tarpgaard, Rachel Tess, David Hernandez, Stephen Petronio and others. His choreographic work includes the outdoor production When the Crowds are Gone for Skånes Dansteater, and Heads in a Landscape for Spira Extended. He has created the short films Still Life, made with four non-professional disabled artists at Skissernas Museum, and Eller så talar vi alls inte, a duet with the retired dancer Nils Simonssen. He is co-founder and host of the podcast DancePod with Skånes Dansteater.
Kit finds joy in the chaos of creative process, and is particularly interested in who gets to be in the room, on whose terms, and how the practice changes when the answer changes.
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Madeleine Månsson (she/her/hers) has danced with Skånes Dansteater since 2016.
Madeleine is a professional crip dancer, choreographer, and disability advocate based in Malmö, Sweden. Her artistry is defined by a fluid and powerful partnership with her black Panthera X wheelchair (she/her), a partner that moves in perfect synchronicity with her.
With extensive experience as a disabled artist within a non-disabled ensemble, Madeleine possesses a unique perspective on the pleasures and pains of the industry. She has navigated the intersection of disability and high-level performance, bringing vital visibility to Crip Time, the aesthetics of access, and the transformative power of both loud and quiet activism against ableism.
Madeleine’s work spans from international stages to grassroots workshops for all bodies. Over the last few years, she has built a prolific body of work, including performing in touring duets such as Fine Lines by Roser López Espinosa, May Fall by Aristide Rontini, Vinterresa by Carl Knif, Dare to Wreck with Peder Nilsson, To Find a Way with One Another by Ben Wright and the site-specific Uncharted among others.
During her tenure with Skånes Dansteater, Madeleine has also choreographed her own works and directed the award-winning short dance film Preface. In 2017, her contributions to the field were recognized when she received the arts stipend award for ‘Dancer of the Year’ from Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne.
Her expertise lies in bridging the gap between traditional dance spaces and true inclusion through performing, teaching, and her involvement in European-wide access initiatives. A cornerstone of her development was the Erasmus+ iDance project, which she was part of from its inception and which has been a key catalyst for her growth as both a dancer and educator.
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Hanna Nussbaumer (she/her/hers) has danced with Skånes Dansteater since 2020.
Hanna was born in Sydney, Australia, where she started her dance training at the École Ballet School. After graduating she moved to London to continue her training, earning a BA (Hons) from the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. During her time there, she had the opportunity to work closely with Rambert Dance Company, gaining valuable professional experience early in her career. She went on to complete a Master of Arts in Dance at the London School of Contemporary Dance, followed by an apprenticeship with Danish Dance Theatre.
In 2013 Hanna joined Norrdans in Sweden. She danced with the company for 5 seasons, before embarking on several years of freelance work across Prague and London. During this period Hanna also became a certified Pilates teacher. Then, in 2020, she became a member of the ensemble at Skånes Dansteater.
Extending her horizon at the company, Hanna has repeatedly managed and co-organized Skånes Dansteater’s Summer Intensive, coordinated and hosted an array of workshops and is currently holding the function of chair for the local union board.
With Skånes Dansteater Hanna has performed works by Anouk van Dijk, Ina Christel Johannessen, Marcos Morau, Tero Saarinen, Fabio Liberti, Mari Carrasco, Tina Tarpgaard, Erika Silgoner and among others.
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Simone Frederick Scacchetti (he/him/his) has been a dancer at Skånes Dansteater since 2023.
He was born in Turin, Italy and began his amateur path with dance at a very young age. He developed professionally in Switzerland at the Ecole-Atelier Maurice Béjart where he matured a multidisciplinary foundation, combining classical and contemporary techniques with theatrical, musical, and physical practices. Gaining valuable stage experience by also partaking in several productions with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne company. After graduating, he worked at the Opernhaus Zürich and later joined the Tanz Theater Regensburg where he spent three seasons performing and refining his interpretative and stage skills within a repertory environment.
As freelancer Simone Frederick has connected more deeply with his own expressive language, performing in numerous theatres and international festivals in collaboration with public institutions such as the Goethe-Institute in Palermo and the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, the African Cultural Exchange in Birmingham and many more. Deepening his movement quality and exploring a more personal expressive voice through collaborations and international exchanges. This phase marked a shift toward a more self-directed and reflective practice.
Before joining Skånes Dansteater he was a member of the MiR Dance Company directed by Giuseppe Spota, working closely with well-known choreographers of the international scene. This experience strengthened his adaptability and collaborative approach and connected his earlier research to his stage work.
With Skånes Dansteater Simone Frederick has performed works by Anouk van Dijk, Ina Christel Johannessen, Erika Silgoner, Fabio Liberti, Tina Tarpgaard and Marcos Morau among others. Alongside performing, he expanded into pedagogy, leading workshops and engaging with diverse communities.
His work today reflects an ongoing dialogue between performance, research, and education.
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Workshop:
This workshop celebrates and problematises the term ’inclusive dance’. Skåne Dansteater’s dancers will consider a spectrum of practices from those that are simply accommodating to those that are built with and by disabled dancers, in order to ask: what practices do we need to change in order to create a dance scene that works for all?
There will be discussions of Universal Design and Crip Theory, especially Crip Time’s invitation to refuse normative productivity-driven pace and explore new temporalities for being in and making sense of the world. We will share practices for translating dances from body-to-body, and between media, through dancing, moving and writing. We’ll try the ’quick trust’ practices we use in our work to bridge the gaps between our experiences, and work safely and openly together. And we’ll think a lot about the aesthetics of access: what emerges when we think of access not as an add-on but as artistic material in and of itself?
This workshop is for both disabled and non-disabled artists and practitioners who want to consider our collective responsibility for a more equitable dance scene and to dream up the kinds of practices that will get us there.
