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Don’t Call Them Beggars – A Bold Artistic Intervention Rewriting the Narrative on Street Survival

By adminPosted on June 13, 2025June 13, 2025Posted in PostsTagged art, Babatunde Olorunjedalo Goodluck, contemporary, culture, don't call them beggars, Don’t Call Them Beggars – A Bold Artistic Intervention Rewriting the Narrative on Street Survival, Jedalo, Lagos, music, Nigeria – 28 October 2024, Olorunjedalo Productions, Performance, soundNo Comments

Don’t Call Them Beggars – A Bold Artistic Intervention Rewriting the Narrative on Street Survival Performed at Afropolis Lagos, Nigeria – 28 October 2024. In a time when the global conversation around poverty, human dignity, displacement, voluntary and forced migration grows louder, a compelling new project from Lagos dares to ask: What if we stopped […]

ORIGINAL

By adminPosted on May 22, 2021July 1, 2021Posted in PostsTagged art, community, contemporary, culture, dance, original, people, tantoloun productions

We should not compare ourselves with each other, as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.

To-Be

By adminPosted on September 22, 2020June 22, 2021Posted in PostsTagged art, Benin Republic, collaboration, contemporary, contemporary dance, Cotonou, Lagos, Nigeria, people, project across borders, tantoloun productions, To-be, Walo Dance Company

TO-BE is a collaborative work between Tantoloun Productions Lagos and Walô Dance Company Cotonou. The dance piece ‘To-Be’ is about becoming, the act and willingness to be who we are meant to be without any set back, regardless of what the society says, and at the same time, not neglecting control, guidance, sacrifice, discipline and the […]

Oneness

By adminPosted on April 22, 2019June 22, 2021Posted in PostsTagged art, community, contemporary, culture, dance, tantoloun productions, yoruba, Yoruba art

ONENESS is a site specific performance that involves the use of Yoruba Bata drums and flute as they synchronize with the dance as a symbol to portray the unity that exists in humanity. If we imagine that we are free of all labels, all separations and all judgments about this world and the life inhabiting […]