TEAM ZAIDI
Emotions, energy, power, character, individuality...
The Cie Zaidi has been founded in 2023 and is a young and powerful krump dance company from Switzerland. The goal of the company under the leadership of the choreographer Niki Anjes Stalder is to show and communicate the wonderful expression of the dance style Krump in Switzerland and abroad. They want to draw more attention to this street style and they want to bring the aesthetics of krump closer to a broad audience and connect with people who usually don't go to theaters. For Niki Anjes Stalder it is also about expanding our western patriarchal concept of art dance and integrating street dance styles and giving them visibility.
Their artistic work is touching, powerful, honest and has a touch of humour. As the first bigger Krump company in Switzerland their work has a clear pioneer character.
NIKI ANJES STALDER
Choreographer, Production manager
Niki Anjes Stalder (aka GIRL INFINITE) is the founder and leader of the Cie Zaidi. She trained in Switzerland and France and completed her dance studies at the HF ZUB in Zurich. She attended international workshops for contemporary dance, improvisation and krump. She completed internships with Thierry Verger, Circus Monti and Scottish Dance Theater. She is a co-founder of the Merge Dance Collective and has danced for various freelance dance companies, including Marcel Leemann, Joshua Monten Dance Company, Compagnie O., Hermes Dance and Kollektiv F in Germany, Holland and Switzerland. She choreographs for various dance and theater productions and teaches at various folk and dance schools. She is currently focusing on her own work and that with the greywax dance company, in which she is an active member of the core team and a dancer. She is part of the Krump FAM INFINITE and travels with them to various national and international events and battles. She performed her short piece "Le Temps Qui Court" together with Krump dancer Florian Nsingi at various festivals in Switzerland and at the Frei Art Festival in Freiburg im Breisgau. In February 2024, she celebrated with the Cie Zaidi the premiere of her own production, the Krump piece "Comfortable Me", at the Schlachthaus Theater Bern. www.nikianjesstalder.ch
FLORIAN NSINGI
Assistance to the management, Dancer
Florian Nsingi (aka INFINITE and YUNG EASY) is the assistance to the management and one of the dancer of the company. He is a member of INFINITE FAM & EASYAR FAM and the president of TEST YOUR KRUMP, a non-profit organisation based in 1630 Bulle.
He is also a member of FCD KRUMP, the largest international krump media.
He started Krump in 2014 and in 2021 he developed his style, which combines calm, technique and power. Since then he has been working on developing various new structures for the further development of the Krump movement. Therefore hee is the initiator of several Krump events in Switzerland.
INFINITE gives weekly krump courses and is occasionally invited to give krump workshops at various locations in Switzerland. He performed together with Niki at different festivals in Switzerland and Germany.
CYNDY ASASE
Dancer
Cyndy Asase (aka GIRL FLASH) is a a fixed member of the company. She is a krump dancer since 2018. Her style combines character, power and deepness.
She has won several events in Switzerland and participated in many international events such as in France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Russia.
She is co-responsible for the Instagram page "Swiss Krump Mouvement" in charge of highlighting the latest news on the Krump movement in Switzerland and is also in charge of the instagram account of the company.
JASON LOPES TEIXEIRA
Dancer
LOUIS LÜTHARD
Dancer
Louis Lüthard (aka KID INFINITE) has been moving around a lot since his childhood, as both his parents are circus artists. He has been performing regularly with his family at circus shows since he was four years old.
At the age of twelve, he discovered dancing with Breaking and over time, he became more and more interested in other street and club styles.
From 2019 to 2023, he studied for a bachelor's degree in contemporary dance and street dance at Tanzwerk 101 in Zurich. Since then, Louis has been based in Bern and works as a dancer in various projects and free-lance companies. He danced in the latest production of the Cie Zaidi and is a fixed member of the company.
FLORENT KIKWANZALA
Dancer
Florent Kikwanzala (aka TINY EASY) born in Congo, came to Switzerland in 2012 and is a fixed member of the company since 2023. He has been dancing various styles for over ten years, among others: Hip-Hop, Afro, Zouk and Krump. Starting with hip-hop, he took part in events such as battles, music videos and stage shows and was able to demonstrate this art also at the PL. Institut Danse in Le Landeron. In 2019 he joined the group "EASYAR FAM" founded by Jaques Okie, which inspired him to practice this dance intensively.
He says himself: "The Krump dance style has helped me to open up to the world and to express myself in moments when I can't do so verbally. Dance is my energetic, creative, physical and mental escape route and it makes me feel good."
