Weekly Professional Class with Mufutau Yusuf

Mufutau Yusuf will teach the weekly professional class ahead of Impasse on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 October, this highly anticipated new show is an attempt to understand the politics of the Black body in a contemporary western society, interrogating notions of representation, misrepresentation, and the lack of representation.

This workshop invites the participants to engage with their own movement vocabularies and their imaginations in new ways through challenging oneself and working through one’s own limit, meanwhile having fun and sharing one’s own dance with others. There’s also much emphasis on embracing one’s own personal groove. It is a very physical and energetic practice, and most importantly fun and suitable for movers of various experiences.

Mufutau Yusuf is a Nigeria-born Irish performer, choreographer, teacher, and curator. A graduate of Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Mufutau is a dancer with Ultima Vez in Belgium and in Ireland with Liz Roche Company, John Scott’s IMDT, United Fall, Catherine Young Dance, to name a few. As a choreographer, Mufutau debuted his first full-length work Òwe in 2022, which premiered in New York and Dublin Fringe Festival.

Mufutau is an associate artist with Solstice Arts Centre and Liz Roche Company, a resident choreographer with Luail: Ireland's National Dance Company, and a recipient of the Irish Arts Council Dance Bursary award 2020 and Project Award 2022 and 2023. His passion for improvisation and sharing has bought him to share his teaching practice to various platforms, festivals, and institution. Mufutau is a co-curator of ‘TW1’ (Train With One), a bi-monthly workshop platform which aims to bridge the gap between the Irish contemporary dance scene with that of continental Europe.