the migrant (2024)
The Migrant is a multimedia dance performance that delves into the complex realities of migration in Africa. This project draws upon the personal migration experiences of the performers, transforming their stories into a powerful artistic expression. Through a dynamic blend of dance, multimedia elements, and oral history, the performance explores the emotional and physical journeys of migration, capturing the lived experiences of the dancers.​​
open Studio (2024)
Open Studio is a quarterly event designed to foster interaction and collaboration between the civil and creative communities. This initiative invites artists, scholars, and activists to gather in a shared space where they can present their work and exchange ideas with the broader community. The event serves as a platform for open dialogue, allowing participants from various fields to share their perspectives, engage in thoughtful discussions, and collaborate on new ideas. Through this dynamic gathering, Open Studio aims to create an inclusive environment where creativity, activism, and scholarship intersect, offering the public an opportunity to engage directly with those who shape the cultural and intellectual landscape. It is a space for building connections, learning from one another, and inspiring action through the shared exchange of knowledge and experiences.​​
children's day event
(2024,2023,2022)
The IlluminateTheatre Annual Children’s Day Event is an initiative with a deep and purposeful mission: to celebrate, honor, and empower children and young people, particularly those from disadvantaged communities. Focusing specifically on children and adolescents aged 11-19, this event serves as a crucial intervention during a formative period in a young person’s life. It is designed to provide not just a day of fun, but transformative experiences that nurture creativity, foster learning, and shape the next generation of leaders.
Art Mobile Lagos (2021)
Art Mobile, Lagos, is a gathering for street performances, rituals, discussions, talks, and discoveries for international literary activists and all kinds of art makers. The goal is to meet, engage, discuss, collaborate, network, teach, inspire, share, interact, create and exchange through workshops, film screenings, exhibitions, and symposiums. The idea was conceptualized from the Nigerian doctrine of Odun which portrays how vital energies are transmitted according to time and season in a communal gathering.​
Festiwalla (2021)
​theater on the move
Illuminatetheatre has re-introduced public theatre to public spaces in Nigeria. This is a collaborative project with Theater-X Berlin. As part of the FESTIWALLA festival we show perofrmance in pop up places in Lagos.
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Activate choreoXchange
Activate! - ChoreoXChange on Bodies in the Street with Illuminatetheatre and Structures for Changes06th March 2021 at 7 pm Berlin / 10am Los Angeles / 1pm Brooklyn and Tallahassee/ and Lagos/ 8 pm RigaIn this ChoreoXchange, we walk our neighborhoods and cityscapes, grounding in the people power where we live and create. Making key “stops” in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Tallahassee, Riga, Berlin, and Lagos, we chart pathways of futurist worlds underway through collectivist projects of bodies in the street. From the krumping cypher to subversive sidewalk gardens, a bail fund to blockades to building takeovers, we map sites of collective memory and brilliant necessity while activating movement stories, protest song, and truth-talking tools. (ABC order by first name) Aigars Larionovs, Enechukwu Emmanuel Uche, Hannah Schwadron, Jeremy Guyton, Karen Wilson, Kentoria Earle, Mouyyad Al Masri, Ojudun Taiwo Jacob, Olowu Busayo.
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Man'ster (2019)
MAN'STER is a multimedia dance performance responding to manhood as a social phenomenon. The piece explores masculinity from a diverse perspective. It highlights male dominance in the context of power manipulation in politics, social affairs and pays strict attention to his cultural representation.
Olugba (2019)
Olugba is a total theatre performance portraying immigration as perceived from our perceptive as Nigerians and how it has affected the global scene. The performance is self-realization and encouragement to African youths to stay in their home country and tackle the moribund situation.​
what if (2018)
It is an experimental film collage and live performance work based on a decidedly African perspective on the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, in which Western colonial powers divided the African continent into colonial territories. It plays through a division of geographical Europe and thus demonstrates the high degree of external determination of the procedure. In the performance, there is an enactment of a visibly performed division and reorganization of Europe.​
in (2017)
is a research-based performance primarily concentrated on the trauma, challenges, and struggles of young people, the performance engages different young people from different locations on the streets of Lagos in verbal communication during its inception. While creating this work we navigated into different genres of the regular daily life of young persons and especially spread across domestic but disturbing issues like sexual assault, feminism, ailment, masculinity, drug abuse etc.​
Ahh (2015)
is a dance piece with high social relevance. The dance piece talks about the struggles of young people growing up in Nigeria, where it was inspired and created. The body movements in this dance piece draw inspiration from daily life experience in Nigeria; surviving in a ghetto, looking for shelter, bumping inside Danfo (minibus), being robbed on your way home, looking for a job after a degree from higher institution … Basically, the performance delves into the current socio-political and economic crisis from the perspective of the performers.
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