WE in a box

Everline Akinyi Odero was born in Nairobi in 1985 and began boxing atthe age of 13. Although boxing is not a widely practiced sport among women in Kenya, she participated in up to 20 professional fights starting in 2005. In 2020, she left her home country and has since continued her career as a trainer in several boxing clubs in Berlin-Kreuzberg and Neukölln. In autumn 2022, her path crossed with percussionist Joss Turnbull, marking the beginning of an artistic collaboration and research process. The resulting performance WE IN A BOX has since been presented across Germany and Europe (2026

Percussionist Joss Turnbull has realized numerous musical and interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with musicians and performers from non-European traditions. By using unconventional playing techniques, he expands the traditional sound of the ancient Iranian training and ritual drum zarb-e-zurkhane, to develop a hybrid percussive language. He has worked in Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and Europe. In 2019, he received the Kathrin Prize from the Jazz Institute Darmstadt and, in 2020, a fellowship from the Roger Willemsen Foundation. In his latest works—as soloist on his second album TURMOIL and in the duet WE IN A BOX—he explores the boundaries of musical expression.