Number dyslexia and counting successes: hip-hop dancer Yami 'Rowdy' Löfvenberg - a podcast by RNZ

Yami 'Rowdy' Löfvenberg has difficulty understanding numbers, and couldn't read an analogue clock until she was 18, yet needs to count beats for her art. The award-winning British-based hip-hop artist and choreographer with a rare counting dyslexia was born in Colombia and adopted by Swedish parents. She was bullied at her Swedish school because of her dyscalculia, and told she was stupid. But she has capitalised on this. Today Yami is a well-regarded hip-hop dance theatre director. Her shows challenge stereotypes, incorporating dance, spoken word and music; she goes by the motto "Let's Edutain". Yami also teaches dance at a London conservatoire and is the only northern hemisphere member of the Australasian female collective Hot Brown Honey.

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