Qudus Onikeku + Sebastian Matthias:
Yuropa

Yuropa negotiates a vision for living together: in the framework of the intercultural tandem-project The Choronauts the Nigerian choreographer Qudus Onikeku and Sebastian Matthias from Germany let their aesthetic practices collide with one another. They weave a free space out of elements of cultural narratives and songs, rituals and masquerades. A transcultural groove emerges from these interweavings because at least in theater we can decided that things don’t stay the way they begin!

CHOREOGRAPHIC CONCEPT Qudus Onikeku, Sebastian Matthias WITH Dancers from QDanceCenter Lagos

Produced by steptext dance project in co-production with Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Tanz! Heilbronn and Theater Bremen. In co-operation with Dance Forum Johannesburg (South Africa), Hessisches Staatstballett / Staatstheater Darmstadt & Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Forgotten Angle Dance Theatre/Ebhudlweni Arts Centre Mpumalanga (South Africa), Nationaltheater Mannheim Tanz, QDanceCenter Lagos (Nigeria), Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen, TRANSIT Abidjan (Ivory Coast) und SOPHIENSÆLE. Yuropa forms part of the project The Choreonauts - Afro-European Navigations in Dance, presented in the scope of the festival Africtions. The Choreonauts – Afro-European Navigations in Dance is funded by TURN of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. media partner: taz.die tageszeitung