La Uyi Ihasee

Dancing for Peace 2 Bijou, is a Fantastical spectacle of deep and sweet nightmares, through the game of art we will explore myths to understand history and Romanticize the demonized bodies. 

With a game of Art, inspired by the Igbo-architectural form of Mbari making, we will dream ourselves through  hardcore inner travels: in this Bijou version we will visit the worlds of Beauty and Rebelliousness, in an attempt to see what it means to be Dancing for Peace.

Fantastical Buffon:
The method holds a diverse range of artistic tools and practices, including Drag, Waacking, Afrikanesque Vouodou movement techniques, Butoh, and ancestral movement gifts. Which I gratefully use to disrupt the corrupted methods of Buffon, Commedia dell'arte, Clown, and Ballet, which have historically perpetuated fetishized and demonized the “othered” bodies of western performative art.  

By using Afro-fabulative skills and Queer Fantasy, I allow the creation of alternate universes, challenging the demonization and fetishization of marginalized bodies and narratives within Western art. For me, this journey is about confronting the mess and pain of the past and finding a way to move forward authentically through the logics of art. Further informed by Talawa Technique. Inspired by Igbo Goddess Ala. In honor of the dead, with kisses to Queen of Athens Petros Kazantzidis 09.01.2025.
 

Maker, performer: La Uyi Ihasee
Costume: Ion Kazantzidis
Music: Ciro Monoarfa Goudsmit

Video credits 
Human Child in the underworld: La Uyi Ihasee
Mother Mermaids daughter: Koko Yeji Boanyha
Rebel Wolf of Bimbo: Yadin Bernauer
Crocodile Nightmare: Kairo Fumilayo Edward
Ala bathing in Magma with Aido-Hwedo: Horatcio Zaphkiel Vlitjer 
Animation, edit: Ion Kazantzidis 
Concept, camera, edit: La Uyi Ihasee

La Uyi Ihasee is a mixed trans child of the world, stating their presence as a Norwegian-Edo~Nigerian physical theatre performer and choreographer. Since 2024 they are an SNDO alumni and Graduated from APT in Berlin in 2017. Additional to presenting art in club and night life since 2018.

With their queer-mixed kid intelligence they enter myths, folklore and legends from West Europe to West Africa and in-between, to fabulate the many complex experiences of being "the other". Detoxing the methods of Commedia dell arte, Clown  and Mime through the forms of Butoh, Drag and Voudou practices from Benin-and Edo legacy

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https://www.lauyi.com/