Ówe

Mufutau Yusuf
Sunday 30 October, 8.00pm 
Tickets €15/12
Booking online via Eventbrite only here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/owe-uillinn-dance-season-2022-tickets-414623739767
Age Suitability 12+ / flashing images

A physical and emotional piece that blends different mediums and invites the audience to witness a journey of becoming.

Òwe is a solo work inspired by meditations on Yoruba proverbs, proverbs that acts as an archive of ancestral knowledge, intuitions, and values of Yoruba people. This dance solo purposes to decode a fragmented, personal archive and observe it through the scope of the more objective cultural and historical archives, while using personal and found archival material as concept, visual design, and soundscape, with an energetic blend of traditional and contemporary movements. It is in a sense an emotional resurrection of a past that is both personal and ancestral.

PERFORMANCE CREDITS
Lighting Design: Matt Burke 
Sound Design: RV
Visual Design: Luca Truffarelli
Costume/Prop: Nina Lopez Le Galliard
Movement/choreographic Assistant: Beno Novak & Alexandros Anastasiadis
Research supported through Irish Arts Council Dance Bursary Award
Further support provided in-kind by residencies at: Dublin Fringe Festival, Firkin Crane, Maison de la Creation Bockstael, and Ultima Vez.

MORE ABOUT MUFUTAU
Nigeria-born Irish performer Mufutau Yusuf had his introduction to contemporary dance at the age of 16 with Dublin Youth Dance Company, and made his professional debut two years later with the Irish Modern Dance Theatre in Fall and Recover, the first of many works with the company. Mufutau subsequently enrolled in a four-year undergraduate program at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, and since graduating in 2016, has worked as a freelancer with various choreographers and companies such as Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Liz Roche Company, Catherine Young Dance, Emma Martin/United Fall, Pan Pan Theatre, Anton Lackhy, Ricardo Ambrozio, Ian Kaler, Paul Blackman and Christine Gouzelis, and many more, as well as developing his own artistic works for both stage and film.

Mufutau is currently based between Ireland and Brussels, where he still works with Belgian company Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez. He was a recipient of the Dance Bursary award in 2020 and has been using this award for the research and development of a new solo work titled Òwe, which premieres at the Irish Arts Centre New York, April 2022.

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You can view and download the programme pdf here.

The Contemporary Dance Programme at Uillinn is in partnership with Cork County Council and supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.