Contemporary Dance Performance with Live Music

Premiere: 29.04.2022 Sprechwerk Hamburg

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Artistic direction, Concept, Choreography: Israel Akpan Sunday
Dance: Tirza Ben Zvi; Nana Anine Jorgenson; Shah-Mo Ferkouzad Darouiche
Music: Paul Timmich and Isioma Williams
Dramaturge: Matthias Quabbe
Video artist: Larissa Potapov
Production head: Vivienne Lütteken for FAMILY PRODUCTION
Assistance: Akshata Ramesh
Distribution & Marketing: Nadine Freisleben for Apricot Productions
Logistic: Kelvin Isaac Jeremiah
Costume: Yupanqui Ramos
Costume Assistance: Noa Noelani Agullo
Stage design: Markus Lohmann

We celebrate the self confusion of identities. AFROCONFUSIONIST is an open exploration of the term Afro - its roots and its manifold overlays with contradictory attributions in today's world. Afro: a condition, a feeling, an origin, a musical style, a political statement, a designation that raises questions.

Together with a team of four dancers and two musicians, Nigerian choreographer Israel Akpan Sunday invites us to a poetic jam session that lets dance and music collide and tries to create as much confusion as possible with the mishmash of political and cultural-historical references, styles and feelings.
 
The Confusionist is an equilibrium of indecision in which one thing can be another. He is the never-still confrontation in gentle aggression, divisive love, and vague unambiguity with no prospect of redemption - the perfect state to finally meet again with fragile confidence in glorious demarcation. 

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