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JOANNA

**Dancer | Choreographer | Project leader | DJ**

Joanna Holewa Chrona is a Swedish dancer, choreographer, project leader and dj located in Sweden/South Africa. Her dance practice is based on several movement traditions: from the technically demanding, and political dancestyle popping from the United States to isiPantsula, Sabar and Afro-Cuban dance from South Africa, Senegal and Cuba. During the last twelve years Joanna has participated as a dancer in a number of larger and smaller productions, both nationally and internationally. Since 2020, the focus has been on her own produced stage performances and festivals, exchanges and workshops. Joanna’s ambition and drive comes from the purity, honesty and freedom within improvisation as well as from music, connecting with people and from art being a healing and revolutionary movement.

Joanna's work is international and interdisciplinary and comes in different constellations. She has formed a duo with Yared Tilahun Cederlund called Land Before Time, together they are performing both indoor and outdoor performances with a reoccuring theme of water and connection. She is the co-founder of the non profit organisation AFIA together with Theresa Gustavsson, AFIA is both producing cultural events but also stage performances. AFIAS vision is to honor and focus on African cultures, more specifically with ‘Afia Festival’ (est 2016) that is celebrating South African culture and the meeting between Sweden and South Africa. One of AFIAS recent but still touring pieces is YEBO YES!, it is starring both artistic leaders/dancers Joanna and Theresa on stage together with co-creating dancers Sibusiso Mthembu, Patricia Mofokeng and David mokale from South Africa.

As of 2024/2025 Joanna is for the first time embarking a journey as a solo-choreographer and solo-dancer on stage with the piece “Phakathi Inside”.

As a DJ Joanna goes by the name of Shuwana and is continuing her relationship and interest for South African culture as she plays Afrotech and house music produced in South Africa.

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