DANCE, A TRENDING NECESSITY IN NEW NOLLYWOOD: AN OVERVIEW OF I'LL TAKE MY CHANCES
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2016-07
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STIRLING-HORDENS
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Dance has passed through a transition from stage to screen such that it has now become a necessity to use the African culture as an intermediary to blend both stage and screen together. Prior to the emergence of the New Nollywood, dance in film has been used for entertainment as written in their plot structure, especially in historical plays. So people got used to that, and not until the likes of Funke Akindele, Emem Isong and a host of others decided to write stories that promote the dance profession, using the film art to cover a wider range of audience, then the people’s orientation began to change gradually. However, the cinematic essence of the dance art has not been fully explored by Nollywood filmmakers, but the likes of Tunde Kelani, Funke Akindele, Emem Isong and Desmond Elliot have made it possible through their works. This paper focuses on the various issues that surrounds the acceptance of dance, dance styles and a case between love and duty as portrayed in the film I’ll Take My Chances, while noting the issues that are not properly addressed and the dramatic flaws detected in the film. The position of this paper is that I’ll Take My Chances serves the purpose of solving that problem of western dance versus indigenous dance in the search of cultural identity. The film’s major message is that dance is not complete if it does not have the African indigenous dances incorporated in their routines. It further emphasizes that African choreography is a depiction of Africans’ ways of life, struggles, and existence in totality.
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The article delves into the presentation of dance on screen with a dance themed film-'I'll Take My Chances'.