(BIO)
Niki Awandee is a spiritual explorer and artistic alchemist that found a guiding light in dance, rhythm and music at a very young age. Her artistic expression and unique touch has brought her global resonance within the HipHop dance community. She is regularly seen flying out from her residence in Stockholm - Sweden to perform, teach, judge and host events and battles around the globe. In 2024 she reached an amazing and astonishing 54 countries, of whom many she has visited multiple times. Niki is a pioneering force questing for freedom and self expression through the practice of freestyle, rhythm, playfulness and intuition training. She has a deep interest in sharing these practices and methods with the aim to contribute to a global growth in creativity, personal resonance, heightened sensibility, genuine expressions and artistic/movement refinement. 

Niki is well known in the established global Hip Hop community through her various achievements related to her dance practice, winning many of the worlds most prestigious titles but foremost inspiring a world through her unique craft and powerful presence on and off stage. In recent years she has also made a name for herself creating and choreographing her own stage productions. “Head Peace” (2022) and “Raised on rhythm” (2023). 

Both above works are highly accessible to a broad audience, bouncing off her deep and skillful understanding of rhythm, groove, playfulness, freestyle and intuition. The works are simultaneously offering a rite of passage through her exploration of the black experience in all its depths, joys, pains and beauty, connecting the dots through her exploration of ancestral knowledge and heritage. This provides a multi-angled transcendental journey, venturing freely on and off topic within our contemporary discourse, at the same time and most importantly, creating a portal to a timeless, peaceful and rich spiritual world that aims to offer the audience an experience of our innermost human experience.