The YDM team
Behind YDM lie three organisations cooperating to present our showcase
Production company at your service....
A Swedish company focused on project management and business development in the arts and culture fields, working nationally and internationally.
Headed by Founder/CEO Lars Garpenfeldt; project manager of YDM
Leading hip hop company
A Scandinavian touring street-dance company spanning four generations working on developing the hip-hop potential in performances, dance battles and stage art.
Headed by Founder/Artistic director Kim Bøytler
Barnens scen
Barnens scen, The Children's Stage is a non-profit cultural association, from 1994, based in Malmö, which aims to arrange performing arts of high quality and various kinds, for children and young people and their adults, especially aged 0-12 years.
By offering performing arts with breadth and cutting-edge, visionary, contemporary and past, for preschools, schools and school childcare during the day, as well as public performances in the children's spare time.
Inaddition to events for children, the Children's Stage is used by other actors for adults for e.g. concerts and dance.
The children's stage has an average of between 30,000 - 40,000 visitors per year, of which over half are children.
Who we are
Lars Garpenfeldt
Scesam AB
Dedicated dancelover doing the project management of YDM since the beginning in 2018. Veteran in the performing arts industry, Malmö based and constantly connecting to international arenas. Running my own company called Scesam AB.
Liv Olanders
Freelance
Producer at Danscentrum Syd 2022-2024. Former producer at Länsteatern på Gotland and runs Lilla Beddinge Teater in southern Sweden. She is YDM’s communicator and wishes everyone, dancer, guest and organizer, two inspiring and happy days at YDM 2025.
Kim Bøytler
Freestyle Phanatix
Ulrich Ruchlinski
Ulrich Ruchlinski (born in Germany 1973) started with theatre in Munich, Germany and lives now in Malmö, Sweden. He has worked within the performing arts field since 1995 with lighting, sound and stage crafts. He is a also a freelance musician, artist and performer.
Ulrich has co-founded the artistic platform and organization Imulto which is resident in Malmö and produces collaborations with a variety of groups, artists and organisations in and around the performing arts field.
Ulrich and Imulto do the technical coordination for YDM and run the technical operations at
Moriska Paviljongen.
Children´s stage
Johan, Kicki and Dan
We want to be at the forefront when it comes to the development of new exciting approaches in children's culture. We are therefore not satisfied with just offering our audience acts by local actors, but also visit our neighboring countries' festivals and invite them for guest performances. The events are aimed at all children, young people and their adults, regardless of whether you go to preschool, school, school childcare, family daycare or are at home. Everyone is welcome to the Children's Stage!
We are located in Malmö Folkets Park and operate on weekdays and weekends throughout the year.
