Background EWA BAMI'JO 2009

Since 2005 Yk Projects organised Ewa Bami’jo locally in Lagos, with the aim of expanding and merging the dance frontiers with other local artistes. In 2005 and 2006, Ewa Bami'jo was organized as a one-day event that gathered artistes of different genres, such as dancers, musician, comedians, poets, journalists and actors, to come under one dance umbrella, as means of enforcing our collecting impact on the society. Ewa Bami'jo will later become a bi-annual and international event from 2009, but still dedicated to local development.

Home and Abroad.
Dance-forms other than tradition dance in contemporary Africa, are very similar to all imported or foreign activities in the society at large, reserved practically for the expatriates, it is obviously there present in the society but it has been suspending in the air, it has been surviving in a sort of extinction, never had the ability to land and be integrated in the society we operate, moreover, there is only a thin line between the artistes and the society, but paradoxically we get fame and power outside our own primary society, and all these is as a result of the standards and circumstances at which we operate our art HOME AND ABROAD.

A moment of reasoning around contemporary dance creation in the African continent...
YK Projects feels the responsibility of taking care of this major aspects where we belive we best fit in, we feel there is still a major surgery to be done to the documentation of our realities, which will aid the intellectual discourse of our past and present struggles as dance practitioners, and bring a whole new experience to the encounters of our local audience.