tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358927012024-02-19T04:24:47.146+01:00DIARY OF A MODERN TUAREGOf Solitude, Tragedy and Memory...
but also of Encounters, Reflection and Opinion.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger206125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-15851031206434779832016-01-07T17:33:00.000+01:002013-02-13T18:47:34.924+01:00You can now catch me on qudusonikeku.com
To now follow more updates and news on projects and travels. you can now do that via qudusonikeku.com. Thanks and see you around.
www.qudusonikeku.com
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-30713640928078410352014-01-05T23:58:00.001+01:002014-01-05T23:58:17.386+01:002014 : A year to look out for !2014 : A year to look out for !Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-44195373531636832372013-08-16T09:28:00.000+02:002013-08-16T09:28:41.954+02:00Of Zik, Awo and other unfinished matters.
Of Zik, Awo and other unfinished matters.
By Qudus Onikeku
Since 1914, which marks the inception of this desired machine, called Nigeria, made of many parts and in dire need of a sense of a body, Nigeria is still a country yearning for direction and in dire need of collective history and heroes. In view of any tangible action leading to this realization, our long time Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-10508614858511386742013-06-27T07:54:00.001+02:002013-06-27T07:54:15.676+02:00When Nollywood invaded Paris.
Those who were slightly familiar with my artistic preoccupation, have asked me "what is it exactly that might have propped the mind of a dancer/choreographer, with such an outrageous touring calendar, that turns him into a die hard fan of Nollywood?"
It is indeed a curious case, but there is surely an explanation, i take it therefore that, since I deal with body movements, with the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-14217724343213824292013-06-21T13:55:00.000+02:002013-06-21T13:55:27.019+02:00Entretien avec Qudus Onikeku
Fasciné à la vue d’un homme se livrant à des acrobaties, c’est âgé d’à peine cinq ans que Qudus Onikeku, né en 1984 à Lagos, tente de l’imiter et se met en mouvement. Adolescent, il se forme au sein des Ballets du Nigeria, où il se lasse rapidement de la gestuelle répétitive des danseurs traditionnels nigérians. Il suit alors des stages de danse contemporaine et rejoint, en 2003, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-62472745461210292013-06-17T08:55:00.000+02:002013-06-17T09:01:25.486+02:00A journey with GAO, my father...
A journey with GAO, my father...
...(excerpt) An image came to my mind. Not an image I constructed on my own, but that which gradually builds after an expanded moment of silence. It's the image of a path, not a straight path, but a set of dots that I'm trying to link, one to another.
Then I wrote to my father.
From far beyond eternity's borders
Where no god, or goddess, nor demon can go
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-79600010059210068652013-05-09T11:30:00.001+02:002013-05-09T12:06:27.936+02:00Revue de STILL/life
« Still/Life » de Qudus Onikeku.
La Maison de la Danse invite à Lyon, dans le cadre du festival La Maison Sens Dessus Dessous, le stupéfiant danseur nigérian Qudus Onikeku.
Still/life, les 25 et 26 mai au Nouveau Théâtre du Huitième, 22 rue commandant Pégout-Lyon 8.
(© Sarah Hickson)
Still life signifie “nature morte”. Ce n’est pourtant pas une corbeille de Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-83596290381299187602013-02-27T20:38:00.000+01:002013-02-27T20:50:50.518+01:00Defending my own Name. 'Qaddish'
Defending my own Name. 'Qaddish'
In the face of the world, I'm undoubtedly a Black and an African man, but the question for me has never been in the realm of denying nor romanticizing, not worrying whether I'm black enough or being too African. We live under a construct which have placed more emphasis on defining and outlining who we are, so rather than just dancing and communicating Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-31636425532051083972013-01-31T14:32:00.000+01:002013-02-27T20:53:11.778+01:00Tours and Calendar
Calendar 2012/2013.
3 - 12 January - WIP La Villette (Creative residency STILL/life)
13 January - WIP La Villette (Public Presentation STILL/life Work in Progress)
16 - 20 January - CND Pantin (Creative residency STILL/life)24 - 27 January - Theatre de l'Agora. Evry (Creative residency STILL/life)30/01 - 04/02 &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-36677281169686214772012-12-08T06:20:00.001+01:002012-12-08T06:20:42.172+01:00Haruna Ishola & His Apala Group - Apala Messenger (Complete Album)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-70349076421079740212012-12-08T05:52:00.001+01:002012-12-08T05:52:49.479+01:00Amusa Elo & His Traditional Group - Omo Olumo / Ojowu Obirin (Audio)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-86567093498078700622012-10-24T18:45:00.001+02:002012-10-24T18:45:34.547+02:00Review: My Exile is in My Head - CardiffReview: Afrovibes – Inception/My Exile is in My Head
IT has taken almost 10 years for the annual Afrovibes festival to reach the UK and as part of this year’s tour, which celebrates the work of award-winning Southern African performers, two renowned artists delivered a double bill that delved into the darker side of human nature.Sonia Radebe’s Inception was as challenging as it was Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-42541173289823319692012-10-23T13:13:00.001+02:002012-10-23T13:13:38.307+02:00Africa Straight UpDear Friends.
I am using this medium to invite you all to watch this beautifully made document on contemporary Africa. For those who have not been so privileged to have access to such information in this docu, which enables us all to think
rightly, above the truthful lies we are all fervently fed with, through the propaganda giants who either see Africa as a place of death and diseases, or that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-12859738266667661422012-10-20T09:41:00.001+02:002012-10-20T09:41:53.658+02:00Inception / My Exile Is In My Head – Contact, ManchesterInception / My Exile Is In My Head – Contact, Manchester
At the risk of failing to sound like the cultured liberal I like to think myself, I have to admit to often finding African culture difficult. It’s a part of the world I’ve never been to, I have a scant understanding of its political history, and a lack of knowledge about its contemporary social and cultural life. So the notes in the Afro Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-39742175476873655432012-09-23T23:08:00.000+02:002012-09-23T23:08:17.691+02:00Qudus Onikeku/ Yk Projects on tour...
Qudus Onikeku/ Yk Projects on tour... Netherlands and UK
Tour dates in Netherlands
Thursday 27th September at 20h30 - Park theatre Eindhoven
Friday 28th september at 20h - Bijlmerpar theatre Amsterdam
Saturday 29th september at 21h - MC Theatre Amsterdam
Tour dates in United Kingdom
Thursday 4th October Albany Deptford
Saturday 6th October Dukes Theatre Lancaster
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-36741627310124274702012-07-19T12:03:00.000+02:002012-07-19T12:05:04.932+02:00Interview for Afrovibes
A dancer who leaves his imprints on the Stage:
by Liesbeth Tjon A Meeuw
Dance has always been at the centre of the Afrovibes Festival. This year's visitors should not miss the strong dance piece My Exile is in my Head by emerging choreographer and dancer Qudus Onikeku (1984). He is a performer from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-53113382470628612302012-07-14T09:35:00.000+02:002012-07-16T10:02:07.932+02:00Wole Soyinka. This tree won’t make a forest.
Between
two decades before independence and two decades after, is a period Femi
Osofisan refers to as the ‘age of
innocence’. Nigeria knew its golden age of extremely creative talents who
shook the world; they are so many that I have decided to pick one of them as
the matter of this article, one with whom I feel closest to. Wole Soyinka. That
lone tree, which might not make a forest in this ‘Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-50735066099644014262012-06-18T14:16:00.000+02:002012-06-18T14:39:13.631+02:00Qudus Onikeku : fulgurance centripète et centrifuge !!!
Qudus Onikeku : fulgurance centripète et centrifuge !!!
Observer Qudus danser est une réjouissance simple, puissante, inouie.
Ce jeune homme a reçu le don de la danse et le cultive.
Il sait tout faire, sauter, tomber, rebondir, aller à toute birzingue et s’arrêter net en souriant.
Il s’envoie en l’air sans prévenir, comme une déflagration. Il défie et s’amuse de la gravité.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-51270614385544318592012-05-16T01:15:00.001+02:002012-05-16T01:15:31.414+02:00Mirror effectUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-34577593622253073962012-03-06T23:48:00.000+01:002012-03-06T23:50:49.471+01:00Qudus Onikeku STILL/life
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-74577571492363764352012-02-02T10:48:00.001+01:002012-02-02T13:41:01.126+01:00
Le nigérian Qudus Onikeku est un homme de scène dont
le corps prend pleinement la parole. Il danse comme s’il était en
transe. Son énergie est impressionnante.
Dans My exile is in my head, il s’inspire de l’oeuvre
de l’écrivain, poète et dramaturge nigérian Wole Soyinka qui témoigne
de ses années d’emprisonnement dans L’homme est mort,
publié en 1972. Cette lecture résonne chez Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-39231782478527598562011-12-17T13:15:00.000+01:002011-12-17T13:15:37.198+01:00Occupy Lekki turns violent.
Eavesdrop! As at (13:00pm) The Commissioner of Police has sent out police to disperse protesters at the Lekki road toll-axis who are protesting the toll fees to start on December18th, 2011. They were dispersed to protect the damage of properties in and around the toll axis and to allow free movement of cars to avert the blockade of roads by protesters. "On scene reportage"
Lagos StateUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-91922904437401210022011-12-16T11:20:00.000+01:002011-12-17T11:21:44.165+01:00On Art and the State.
This sort of friday morning musing is to finally speak my mind on this issue that had played with my mind for too long... It is the issue of the State of the Art and the Art of the State.As an artist, If there are two states i'm most familiar with, that will be France and Nigeria... Obviously. But when it comes to art and the state, sure there is no much to say about Nigeria, for you to eat as Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35892701.post-5280091445184789752011-12-06T16:37:00.000+01:002011-12-06T16:37:53.848+01:00African Culture (Full) - Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1