Mufutau Yusuf: Impasse

Name: Mufutau Yusuf: Impasse | What's On
Start: 2025-10-10T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Lowry

Fri 10 Oct 2025 8:00PM

Fri 10 Oct 2025

8:00PM

Quays Theatre

Past event

A powerful and driving duet with a set and props referencing African migration. Two performers invoke prevailing notions of blackness – its crudeness, threat, sexuality, rage and immorality – while also unveiling its power, grace, sensuality, tenderness, intelligence and love.

Mufutau Yusuf's Impasse 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.

Impasse premiered in May 2024 for Dublin Dance Dance Festival to critical and audience acclaim and went on to be presented at Dancebase for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 2024, and in autumn 2024 in France at Maison de la Danse, Lyon; in Ireland at Solstice Arts Centre, Navan and Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Cork; in Nigeria at Afropolis, Lagos, Nigeria; and in the UK at The Mac for Belfast International Arts Festival and Sadler’s Wells, London.