Donation based
English
What does it mean to breathe, move, and remember together? How can the body hold and release stories of history, culture, and identity? How might we rediscover play, rest, and resonance as ways of healing and creating?
The Collective Resonance Lab is a one-day immersive workshop led by Nigerian artists Oluwabukunmi Olukitibi and Olowu Busayo, who bring their unique yet interconnected approaches to movement, memory, and collective presence. Together, they open a space where breath, sound, and improvisation converge to awaken embodied memory and invite participants into new possibilities of being and belonging.
At its core, this lab recognizes the body as a living archive - carrying personal and collective histories, cultural knowledge, and the imprints of everyday experience. Through the practice of ÈÉMI - The Body as Archive, Oluwabukunmi invites participants to center breath as the impulse for movement, memory, and connection. Breath becomes a bridge: between inner and outer worlds, past and present, self and community.
In dialogue with this, Busayo brings his propositions of Fluidity and Identity, drawing from improvisation, active rest, and play. His work explores what it means to move with instinct, to embody multiple selves, and to enter a state of fluid presence where identity is not fixed but constantly shifting. Through his approaches, participants are invited to unlearn rigid structures and discover improvisation as a practice of freedom.
Together, these two practices create a vibrant dialogue: breath and rest, archive and play, structure and fluidity. The lab unfolds as an experimental and experiential journey, guiding participants to excavate their embodied memory, embrace improvisation, and find resonance in collective movement.
The Collective Resonance Lab is not just about learning techniques. It is an invitation to step into a living process of remembering, unlearning, and creating. Participants will be guided through somatic practices, improvisation tasks, partner and group scores, and reflective circles. Each layer of the day builds toward a shared experience of co-creation - ephemeral compositions that emerge in the moment and dissolve back into the collective body.
By the end of the lab, participants will have:
• Gained practical tools for grounding through breath and embodied awareness.
• Expanded their improvisation practice, rooted in African philosophies of movement and playful experimentation.
• Experienced collective rituals of resonance, reflection, and belonging.
• Co-created short, improvised group scores that function as shared expressions of memory, care, and imagination.
The lab is open to professional dancers, interdisciplinary artists, students, and community members who are curious about movement as a practice of memory, healing, and creativity. No specific dance technique is required - only openness to explore.
9:00-13:00 & 14:00-18:00
Donation based
Meeting point: Kasernenhof 8 (main entrance courtyard side kHaus)
Registration: buero@kaserne-basel.ch
Oluwabukunmi Olukitibi: This Body Is The Only Land I know 19.11.2025
Biography
Oluwabukunmi Olukitibi is a Nigerian movement artist, choreographer, and culture worker. Her practice bridges psychosomatic exploration, memory, and healing, often situated at the intersection of performance and wellness. She is the founder of Hearts Heartist, an initiative that integrates artistic creation with holistic wellness and community engagement. Through Hearts Heartist, she develops projects that foreground collective care, mentorship, and socially engaged practices that empower communities through art and movement.
She is also developing ÈÉMI, an approach to movement that centers breath as the impulse for exploring memory, space, healing, and human connection. Her movement style is influenced by traditional and contemporary dances of Africa, mixed martial arts, Naija fusion, house dance, and somatic movement. She teaches internationally, facilitating workshops and labs that integrate breath, sound, and movement as tools for resilience, creativity, and collective grounding.
Olowu Busayo is a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of Illuminate theatre Productions. His propositions, such as Boju Boju and Spirit of the Octopus, investigate improvisation through play, fluidity, and active rest. His work explores shifting identities, embodied freedom, and the porous boundaries between reality and imagination. With a background in theatre and dance, Busayo approaches performance as a space for both vulnerability and experimentation, where participants are invited to rediscover the body’s instinctive intelligence and embrace improvisation as a liberating practice.
