Favour Odusola

Favour Odusola (Proud African King) is a Nigerian Irish multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin Ireland and a professional member of Dance Ireland and Create Ireland. He has worked across several contexts from traditional dance & percussion to commercial work and contemporary theatre for over 15 years in Europe (Ireland and London), Africa (Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria), and UAE (Dubai). He is a face that portrays the average African dancer with the zeal to learn and explore. The main focus of his work is all about creating pieces speaking towards surrounding issues. Favour is very adventurous, looking for new ways to use dance as a tool to be of relevance, believing that dance is a tool for social integration, education, proper implementation, and love but only if used right.

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He was one of the first two artists commissioned for “BENCH”,  a collaboration between Coisceim dance theatre and waterways Ireland.

amd was the recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award 2021/2022

 

Favour has performed at numerous festivals and events such as The Cork Midsummer Festival under the Irish Modern Dance Theatre,  Mother Tongues Festival, Irish Youth Dance Festival and many more

 

As a dance teacher he has taught at companies such as: Google, Pfizer,  Central Bank of Ireland, Black Canvas (a work emerging from an AIC Bursary Award 2020), Friends of Earth ‘COP ON Youth Workshop on the cop26 UN Climate talks’, The Longford Africans Network, Dance Ireland.

 

He has taught in various dance schools/crews and studios such as Fly Dance Studio (Dublin), Coisceim Dance Theatre (Dublin), District Funk (Dublin), C&N Dance Company (Dublin),  Dance Revelation Studios (Omagh), TU Dublin, Kareen VYBZ Cork, (Cork), World Fusion Dance Crew (Dublin), DYDC (Dublin).