My Exile Is In My Head

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My Exile Is In My Head

Through this piece the choreographer deals with personal questions of home,belonging, non-belonging and forms of exile. To give the word to the embodied body, that had passed through such tunnel of experience. In his own rationality, there is no exile without a prior movement or emigration, he who says exile, says home in reverse, but the concept of exile is not about relocation or departure, the only thing that is real is the tragedy that such loss of home constantly brings to one’s existence.

This work is presented with assistance from the French Institute of South Africa and the French Embassy South Africa

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Below is a video compilation of excerpts from the Dance Umbrella Performance

 

Additional Info

  • Choreographer: Qudus Onikeku
  • Venue/Time: THE DANCE FACTORY, FEB 26 @ 19:30 & FEB 27 @ 14:00
  • Title of Work: My Exile Is In My Head
  • Music: Charles Amblard
  • Costume Design: none
  • Set Design: none
  • Lighting Design: Guillaume Fesneau
  • Director/Artistic Director: Qudus Onikeku
  • Dancers/Performers/Cast: Conceptions, Choreography and performance by Qudus Onikeku
  • Video: Isaak Lartey
  • Other: Technician: Mathieu Marie-Gabrielle
  • Company: none
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