AQ Arts Performance company
AQ Arts Performance Company aim to explore, highlight and educate. Our work often focuses on specific moments in time and situations that we will all face as humans and contributors to the wider society.
AQ Arts Performance Company combine dance, poetry and live music. The movement vocabulary is rooted in traditional and urban dances of the African diaspora such as contemporary, jazz, African and Caribbean dances, capoeira and hip hop.
AQ Arts Performance Company combine dance, poetry and live music. The movement vocabulary is rooted in traditional and urban dances of the African diaspora such as contemporary, jazz, African and Caribbean dances, capoeira and hip hop.
AQ Arts Youth Company
AQ Arts Youth Company are an eclectic performance company with a blast of the traditional and urban. Lead by Andrea Queens and guest artists, the company is made of talented singers, dancers and performance poets aged 14-25. The AQ Arts Youth Company give young talented individuals from West London and beyond the opportunity to develop as artists both in craft and mentality. We aim to champion brilliant artists and performers while ensuring each member understands what it takes to be in a professional performance arts company.
Supported by the London Borough of Culture, Brent 2020 - Culture fund.
The first company performance will take place as part of The Kilburn High.
Supported by the London Borough of Culture, Brent 2020 - Culture fund.
The first company performance will take place as part of The Kilburn High.
Productions and performance projects
AQ Arts Youth Company
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Dua Lipa's New Rules - Cover
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So Good To Me - Dance Routine
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AQ Arts Performance Company
Penny
Penny was inspired by a tragic story within Herbert Asbury’s Book, ‘Gangs of New York’. Set in 1864 within the slums of Five Pointz, New York. Penny explores the process of mourning and highlights ways to continue without loved ones and remember the impact and value they had on our lives.
Created and directed by Andrea Queens |
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I Choose
Using Hip Hop, breakdance and spoken word in a poetry team style, the piece is equally about the text as it is about the movement. It is bull like, fired up and makes no apologies for it's views, highlighting the importance of choice, privilege, and expectation. Created and directed by Andrea Queens |
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Migrant Conversation
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Improvised solo work, ‘Migrant Conversation’,will truly get you talking. An unpredictable live exploration of attitudes and theories towards home amongst the migrant communities. The piece asks questions such as ‘How do we balance adapting and retaining culture in our lives and for our future generations?’ This performance uses crowd migrants and will indeed going to get you thinking, laughing and above all having a conversation.
Created and directed by Andrea Queens |
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Bearer of the Rose
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This Afro fusion piece explores the journey of three black women as they discover and embark upon there life callings. Its inspiration came from Eddie Murphy's character in the film, 'Coming to America', when Akeem decides to leave the comfort of home and become a leader in his own right.
Created and directed by Andrea Queens |
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