NKUL NNAM
Athena Lucie Assamba
Athena Lucie Assamba conjures an electrifying encounter between the village and the club. At the confluence of these two worlds emerges a space for emancipatory exploration where collective memories, embodied knowledge and ancestral energies flow freely.
As a true MC, Athena presides over this vibrant ritual, orchestrating rhythms and opening spaces for transformative healing. Ngoma drums, resounding voices and dancing bodies compose an Afrofuturist and transcendent landscape whose vivid energy draws equally from inherited traditions and contemporary textures. Beneath its festive appearance, NKUL NNAM reveals a resolutely political dimension, claiming emancipation and sovereignty.
About Athena Lucie Assamba
Athena Lucie Assamba is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and choreographer-researcher of Cameroonian origin. Navigating fluidly between traditional and contemporary African dances along with street styles such as waacking, dancehall, ndombolo, and afro house, she approaches the body as a space of memory, transmission, and transformation. Informed by her background in neuroscience, she has created several works that probe the connections between movement, consciousness, and healing. She is a member of the Montreal-based collective Afrodojomtl, which fosters the practice, transmission, and celebration of Afro-descendant dances.
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