• Hausa Edition
  • Podcast
  • Conferences
  • LeVogue Magazine
  • Business News
  • Print Advert Rates
  • Online Advert Rates
  • Contact Us
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Leadership Newspapers
Read in Hausa
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Leadership Newspapers
No Result
View All Result

Q Dance Studio Unveils Afropolis 2024 Performance Art Festival

by Chinelo Chikelu
1 year ago
in Entertainment
Afropolis 2024
Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on XTelegram

The Q Dance Studio, Lagos, has unveiled its upcoming performance art festival titled Afropolis 2024, theme: We Need New Myths.

Advertisement

The founder, festival artistic director, and dance artiste, Qudus Onikeku in his curatorial statement about the festival said it will explore performance, place and time, both past and present, as part of what shapes a people, a society and its mythology.

Noting that Africa had its aspirations and imagined futures prior to colonial invasion, Onikeku said there is a need for the continent to recall its forgotten futures and original destiny through the gathering of its dismembered and scattered bodies in close proximity, in the same place, at the same time, in order to weave new mythology.

Myth, he said, encapsulates not just the rituals and beliefs of a people, but the stale and worn-out misconceptions the world has about Africa as a dark continent, doomed with black magic.

With the continent’s present struggle ‘with the way Africans see themselves, and the way they want the world to see them, through African’s lens’, Onikeku said old myths no longer apply, rather new myths which have not yet arisen, and thus left present generation confused.

RELATED

British-Nigerian Actor Junior Salokun Set To Star In Nollywood

British-Nigerian Actor Junior Salokun Set To Star In Nollywood

14 hours ago
‘Burna Boy Is My Number 1 Artiste In Nigeria’, 2Baba Declares

‘Burna Boy Is My Number 1 Artiste In Nigeria’, 2Baba Declares

16 hours ago
ADVERTISEMENT

Artists, writers, historians, culture curators and scholars, he acknowledged, play a huge role in re-establishing the cultural intelligence, innovative thinking and knowledge production of African societies, where they had been attacked.

Like magicians, Onikeku said, they rebuild place (physical space) through shape shifting, and time-bending storytelling skills aimed at moving societies forward.

“Performance is a language that allows us to bypass words, and discourse altogether, in order to say the unsayable, and transform the chaotic world of sensations into a world of forms and representation. The stuff magic is made of; the kind of magic Africa retains an absolute mastery.”

ADVERTISEMENT

Afropolis will hold October 26 to November 3rd, 2024 in  Lagos

 


Join Our WhatsApp Channel



Tags: Afropolis 2024
SendShare10169Tweet6356Share
ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

Our System’ll Help Police, Others Locate Stolen Cars Faster – Banjo

Next Post

What Autonomy Portends For Local Govt System

Chinelo Chikelu

Chinelo Chikelu

You May Like

British-Nigerian Actor Junior Salokun Set To Star In Nollywood
Entertainment

British-Nigerian Actor Junior Salokun Set To Star In Nollywood

2025/09/01
‘Burna Boy Is My Number 1 Artiste In Nigeria’, 2Baba Declares
Entertainment

‘Burna Boy Is My Number 1 Artiste In Nigeria’, 2Baba Declares

2025/09/01
BBNaija S10: ‘I Was Married Off At 15, Now Mother Of 2 Kids’, Sultana Reveals
Entertainment

BBNaija S10: ‘I Was Married Off At 15, Now Mother Of 2 Kids’, Sultana Reveals

2025/09/01
Olamide Announces Headline Concert At London’s OVO Arena
Entertainment

Olamide Announces Headline Concert At London’s OVO Arena

2025/08/31
We Verified, Approved 53 Films  In June, Says NFVCB
Entertainment

NFVCB Classifies 96 Licensed Films For July 2025

2025/08/31
Mazerance Partners Nigerian Storyteller To Showcase Global Creativity
Entertainment

Mazerance Partners Nigerian Storyteller To Showcase Global Creativity

2025/08/31
Leadership Conference advertisement

LATEST

Coronation Lists N8.79bn Infrastructure Fund On NGX

Analysts Advise FG On Risk Mgt As New MTDS Raises Borrowing Limits

FAAC Allocation Inflows, OMO Maturities Lift System Liquidity To N1trn

Kumo Hospital Now Federal Medical Centre As FG, Gombe Sign Deal

FG Targets 44m Nigerians For Health Insurance

Journalists Trained In Violent Extremism Coverage

Simon Ekpa: Emulate Finnish Court, NBA Tells Judges, Prosecutors

Brazil Aviation, Consular Pacts To Be Replicated With Colombia – Tinubu

Naira Firms To N1,526.09 As Dollar Weakens In Global Market

Bauchi Sets Up Committee To Sustain Peace In Bogoro/Tafawa Balewa Councils

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.