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Okwui Okpokwasili (/ ˈ oʊ k w i oʊ k ˈ p oʊ k w ə s ɪ l i /; born August 6, 1972) is a Nigerian-American artist, performer, choreographer, and writer.
Aug 5, 2022 · The choreographer and performer talks about her new project, a story about hair and lineage, and her approach to storytelling and imagination. She also reflects on her identity as a Nigerian-Igbo woman and her relationship with MoMA's collection and audience.
Oct 4, 2018 · Okwui Okpokwasili is a performer, choreographer, and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces that draw viewers into the interior lives of women of color, particularly those of African and African American women, whose stories have long been overlooked and rendered invisible.
Okwui Okpokwasili is a performer, choreographer and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Herb Alpert Awardee in Dance, and a visiting assistant professor at Brown University.
Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born create a dance theater work that explores the role of ritual and the fraught relationship between ancestors and future generations in a precolonial African village. Commissioned by BAM and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, this is the inaugural chapter of a larger speculative mythology.
Nov 2, 2023 · Multidisciplinary artist Okwui Okpokwasili discusses her new work adaku, part 1: the road opens, which explores precolonial Nigerian cultures and narratives. She reveals her influences, inspirations, and challenges in creating a slippery and complex world of dance, poetry, song, and theater.
On the way, undone is at once an homage and a pilgrimage: performers trace a path through the park to Leigh’s magnificent sculpture at 30th Street, carrying a vessel that also carries them. Okpokwasili performs with Mayfield Brooks, Anaïs Maviel, and Samita Sinha.
