About me
Valerie Kim-Thuy Larsen
Connexions CPH, Chair
Co-founder of Connexions, Copenhagen-based association dedicated to the promotion of African dances and cultures, Polynesian dances and cultures, and world dance and culture in general.
Writer: author of Mwana – 1970s Kinshasa childhood memories told in self-referencing short stories format;
Makila, Blood on the Dance Floor – mysterious death in an ethnic dance center written as theater including dance performance;
Erzulie, A Love Story – immigrant story Haiti-United States witnessed by a vodou lwa, a dance artist encounters cultural tensions, written as theater including dance performance.
Dance Artist: non-professional with decades of experience in a wide variety of culturally rooted dance forms – African, African Diaspora, and Polynesian arts and cultures.
Doctorate in Cultural Studies. Master in Women and Gender Studies.