Valorization Measures

Just like most of our projects, we believe an audio-visual material is the best means of preserving our activities, the documentary film that will be produced out of Ewa Bami'jo is aimed to combine entertainment with database and socio-political proposals, primarily committed to the local audience through national television and other available media such as the web.

Yk projects has laid a series of project to be a follow up to Ewa bami jo. The dance industry in Nigeria is still in its primitive stage with quite a lot of untapped initiations, we tend to make a functional use of our differences, diversity and complexity through the implementation of 3D.
3D is a project plan that seeks to multiply and displace practitioners by looking outside-in and going from big-to-small, having a “Local Dance BOOM” in mind, through diverse combination and intra-exchange on a national level, that bonds a chain of network units within each states first before opening up to blocs in the regions, with the aim of “De-individualizing” the isolated operators that is rather being squashed by the massive weight of their one man shows, which must however be backed by other possible measures of “De-centralizing” our activities away from a single administrative centre to other locations, on a movable architectural structure that can easily be devolve to other regions, and “De-concentrating” the attention of other secondary operators from the main regions that harbours the central players.

More so, bringing individual forces to form an alliance of cultural operators, whereby they come together with a collaborative force, which does not exclude students, journalists, critics, scholars and professionals all around Nigeria, and by so doing, we are in the process of creating other doors at which we can disseminate our energy, by constantly giving helping hands to smaller operators in other states to develop a sustainable dance market, and unconsciously, there will be a massive network that the nation can benefit from

The 2009 edition of the Ewa Bami'jo then becomes a perfect platform where we bring few targeted alliance into a bond, while the initiation of a similar project like “Do we need cola-cola to dance?” for a national tour becomes a weapon for us to drill further into the nation, to scavenge for possible encounters with our supposed groupies, thereby the second edition of Ewa Bami'jo becomes the beginning of a concrete alliance that will only get to increase with time and as the word continues to go around.

Benefits of putting 3D into consideration includes possible mobility and artistic initiations among different region. since there are no concrete publication or agencies that provides us with such information of how many professionals, organisations and exhibition venues exist in the country, such initiation then unconsciously develops an accurate statistic and census of the industry, which then become a guide for easy access of the various regions for national and trans-national exchange.