After building creative roots across Southern Africa, One Groove’s next chapter unfolds in Dakar. Urban Exchange Senegal is a multidisciplinary programme uniting Danish and Senegalese artists through music, graffiti, and breaking.
Taking place during the URBANOIZ Festival (June 3–13, 2026), where Denmark is Guest of Honour, this exchange brings live performance and co-creation to a deeply established cultural ecosystem. Co-developed with the Association Impact Sénégal and supported by the Royal Danish Embassy, we are stepping into a powerful conversation backed by institutions like UNESCO and the British Council.
This multidisciplinary initiative is driven by our mission to combine artistic excellence with knowledge transfer to build the kind of human connections that shape how two nations understand and engage with each other over time.
Urban Exchange Senegal brings together ten dynamic artists from the One Groove DK community, joining forces with twenty Senegalese talents and volunteers. For the first time, we are crossing art forms, intentionally cultivating a diverse collective of creators ready to learn, share, and shape a vibrant, cross-cultural community in Dakar.
Music & Co-Creation: Exceptional musicians and producers from our DK community share stages with Senegalese artists across multiple live concerts during the festival and step off stage into the studio. Working toward a joint compilation release, this captures what emerges when two creative communities sit down, make music together, and mean it.
Graffiti & Public Art: Our cohort’s street artists work alongside Senegalese peers to create large-scale public works across Dakar—monumental pieces that will long outlast the festival. Permanent, visible, and impossible to ignore, these are not decorations. They are proof that something happened here.
Breaking & Movement Culture: B-boys and b-girls from our community take to the festival stages and into local neighbourhoods. They perform, connect, and lead workshops that pass skills directly to young Dakar-based dancers, using breaking as both spectacle and dialogue.
Sharing Stages, Streets & Studios
Urban Exchange Senegal brings together ten dynamic artists from the One Groove DK community, joining forces with twenty Senegalese talents and volunteers. For the first time, we are crossing art forms, intentionally cultivating a diverse collective of creators ready to learn, share, and shape a vibrant, cross-cultural community in Dakar.
Music & Co-Creation: Exceptional musicians and producers from our DK community share stages with Senegalese artists across multiple live concerts during the festival and step off stage into the studio. Working toward a joint compilation release, this captures what emerges when two creative communities sit down, make music together, and mean it.
Graffiti & Public Art: Our cohort’s street artists work alongside Senegalese peers to create large-scale public works across Dakar—monumental pieces that will long outlast the festival. Permanent, visible, and impossible to ignore, these are not decorations. They are proof that something happened here.
Breaking & Movement Culture: B-boys and b-girls from our community take to the festival stages and into local neighbourhoods. They perform, connect, and lead workshops that pass skills directly to young Dakar-based dancers, using breaking as both spectacle and dialogue.
