Workshop in Yoruba Dance Tradition – Ridwan Rasheed

Ridwan Rasheed's Dance Workshop is inspired by Yoruba dance vocabulary. Through movements from the Yoruba dance tradition, it reconstructs movement approaches by experimenting with rhythms, techniques, fusions and indigenous embodiment in contemporary patterns. The workshop brings inherited dance vocabularies into contact with an exploratory contemporary movement practice.

Rather than presenting tradition as a fixed form, the workshop works with its movements and rhythms as material for experimentation. Participants encounter the relation between technique, rhythmic organisation and embodiment, while testing how these elements may be rearticulated through contemporary patterns. The focus remains on movement as a way of carrying, transforming and sharing a vocabulary.

Ridwan Rasheed is a Nigerian contemporary dancer, choreographer and researcher from Lagos, with ancestral roots in Oyo State. He works between Berlin and Lagos. His practice moves between Yoruba Bata dance traditions and contemporary performance, engaging critical theory and experimental forms.