Union Dance and The London Lucumi Choir have joined forces in an exciting collaboration, creating a dance cantata from Juwon Ogungbe’s composed choral work Time and the Trickster’s Heart.
Ogungbe’s music displays The London Lucumi Choir’s special attributes, with the musical focus apportioned evenly between soloists, deeper voices, percussionists and higher voices.
Corrine Bougaard (Union’s Artistic Director) has created a vibrant dance to complement and highlight the Choir’s performance of the work that celebrates transformations and is inspired by Cuban Bata dances of the Santeria faith.
In the piece Eshu the Trickster Deity misleads three honoured female Deities, Yemoja, Oya and Oshun, who are regarded as perfect, in power, wisdom and goodness. Based on a parable from Yoruba mythology, it demystifies some aspects of the belief system as it is practised in the Santeria faith of Cuba and amongst the Yorubas of Nigeria and Republic of Benin in West Africa.
The Performance will take place on the Outdoor Stage from 3.15pm – 3.45pm and from 6.40pm – 7.10pm
