Adanta African Dancers

The award winning Adanta African dancers are a cultural organisation passionate about the preservation, education, and appreciation of traditional Nigerian music, dance, theatre, and culture. The dancers create work aimed specifically at enabling the audience to witness the beauty and energy that African dance generates. Our activities have extensive workshop elements culminating into site specific events; these can be performed in unusual spaces, environments and. https://adantadance.com/

The award winning Adanta African dancers are a cultural organisation passionate about the preservation, education, and appreciation of traditional Nigerian music, dance, theatre, and culture. The dancers create work aimed specifically at enabling the audience to witness the beauty and energy that African dance generates. Our activities have extensive workshop elements culminating into site specific events; these can be performed in unusual spaces, environments and high-profile theatres. The size of the troupe can also be altered to suit the specific requirements of event organizers. Adanta dancers exists to explore and express body movement ideas through dance, which reflects their African origin, society and way of life. Adanta's philosophy is to create innovative dance routines by using sources rooted in traditional African culture and to communicate the diversity of dance vocabulary within the continent to its wide variety of audiences. Our service provision philosophy is designed to suit the requirements of a great variety of customers. We hold the view that no performance opportunity is too big to undertake and none is too small to overlook. We treat every performance invitation with utmost respect and appreciation, realising the fact that every booking comes as recognition and appreciation of our work and the professionalism of our artists. Adanta Dance performs on request, both locally and abroad. Throughout the year, Adanta sets up workshops within the inner and outer London areas. In fact, Adanta have made a variety of television appearances both in the United Kingdom and the UAE, including appearances on C4's "Paul O'Grady Show", "Stealing Lives" (feature film for C4's), OBE, BEN TV and other satellite TV channels. The company has also enjoyed publicity from the Times Newspaper, The Guardian, African Voice and numerous local newspapers and magazines. Adanta, through its community work, has used dance, music and drama workshops to engage people in the London metropolitan area both in schools and in community regions. The activities for the community program range from using music and dance to create pathway to employment, healthy lifestyle program for adults, healthy lifestyle program (outreach) for over-60s, using performing arts as a way of diverting young people from criminal activities, student enrichment programs for schools, colleges, and universities.