Contemporary Dance performance with live music

Premiere: 18.06.2021 K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg

stage projections
trailer

Concept and Choreography: Israel Akpan Sunday
Project management: Vivienne Lütteken (FAMILY PRODUCTION)
Dance: Sarah Lasaki; Nana Anine; Israel Akpan Sunday
Music: Bettina Russmann; Paul Timmich; Stanley Ikechukwu Njoku
Videography: Larissa Potapov
Costume: Julia Hehlke

IJAKADI OKAN builds a bridge between the legends and stories of Nigerian Yorùbá culture and the present, between the two metropolitan cities Hamburg and Lagos.

In conjunction with live music and poetry, Israel Akpan Sunday chores the West African tradition of collective storytelling and transfers it into a present context.
Moving in the field of research in various traditional and modern African dances, he focuses on the “internal struggles” (translation of the title from the Yorùbá) and other human challenges such as dealing with stereotypes and different forms of imparting knowledge.

Trailer