New Kyd

New Kyd is a Zürich-based movement artist, DJ, and producer whose work traverses dance, sound, and visual media to explore identity, survival, and diasporic existence. With roots in modern dance and Yoruba heritage, their practice is an ongoing inquiry into the body’s capacity to hold memory, resistance, and transformation. Through improvisation, somatic research, and abstract storytelling, Kyd crafts performances that challenge conventional narratives of visibility and belonging.

Their independent works often delve into themes of decay, neglect, and the unseen labor of marginalized bodies. Projects such as RESTLESS: land of nois.e and their upcoming solo on Joyce Carol Vincent which investigates urban isolation, social erasure, and the intersection of movement with forensic and psychological research.

In collaboration with institutions such as Tanzhaus Zürich, Museum Rietberg, and Cabaret Voltaire, Kyd has developed projects that merge performance with exhibition formats, often in dialogue with other artists and thinkers. Notable collaborations include working with Wu Tsang, Trajal Harrell, and Latefa Wiersch on performances and installations that extend beyond dance into interdisciplinary experimentation.

Whether through solo works, collaborations, or DJ sets, New Kyd’s practice is a refusal to be silenced—a call to reimagine survival as a dynamic, embodied resistance.