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Pina Bausch Centre under construction, Bundesallee 260, 42103 Wuppertal

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A movement experience that explores the body as archive, memory, and expression. Drawing from Yoruba principles, African dances, and Naija Fusion, this workshop invites participants to connect breath, rhythm, and improvisation to inner and collective presence.

Through guided movement, reflection, and playful experimentation, participants will engage their bodies - as sites of memory. release tension, and celebrate movement as a bridge between personal expression and shared energy.

Oluwabukunmi Olukitibi is a Nigerian movement artist, choreographer, community engager, and cultural worker whose practice explores embodiment, memory, urban belonging, and collective care. She is a Pina Bausch Fellow (2024), Prince Claus Building Beyond Fellow (2025) and the founder and director of Hearts Heartist, an interdisciplinary platform encompassing performance production, wellness practice, artistic research, and community-based programming. Her work spans choreography, somatic facilitation, public space interventions, and ritual-based performance formats. Oluwabukunmi is the initiator and artistic director of ÌMÍ – a community-centered creative residency lab and festival that brings together artists across movement, sound, research, writing, and social practice. ÌMÍ functions as a living ecosystem for experimentation, knowledge exchange, and embodied research.

Her artistic projects have been presented across Nigeria and internationally, engaging themes of displacement, accessibility, feminist futures, healing, and embodied archives. Across her practice, she is committed to building sustainable artistic infrastructures rooted in collaboration, care, and long-term community engagement.