HomeClasses and EventsClasses and WorkshopsMorning Class: Forget How to Dance
  • Tuesday & Thursday, October 31 - November 2, 2023 | 10AM-12PM
  • Morning Classes
Dark skinned Black woman with a 4c puff of hair looks through her arm into the camera. She is wearing a purple graffitied shirt and green pants Photo by Elyse Mertz.
ID: Dark skinned Black woman with a 4c puff of hair looks through her arm into the camera. She is wearing a purple graffitied shirt and green pants Photo by Elyse Mertz.

What to Expect:

This class is a playful and provocative step into my recurring dance nightmare: I am put onstage with a dance company in front of hundreds of people, and everyone except me knows the choreography. We will draw from that fear and learn how to use forgetting to our advantage. I will introduce improvised scores and memory games and choreographic tools that ask us to make something out of our disjointed memories. We will also employ weight, tension, rebound, speed, and rigor. We will make complex choreographies from empty beginnings. We will find new ways to be brave in a scary field.

 

Accessibility Notes

  • This class includes guidance that is mostly auditive.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, Ogemdi Ude” at least three (3) weeks prior to the class start date.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org subject line, “Morning Class, Ogemdi Ude.”

Past class

Location

MR, 122CC – Ninth Street Studio
150 1st Avenue
New York, NY 10009

  • Get the Green - IRT Lexington Avenue Line numbers: 6 to Astor Place
  • Get the Light slate gray - BMT Canarsie Line numbers: L to 1st Avenue
  • Get the Orange - IND Sixth Avenue Line numbers: F to 2nd Avenue

Faculty

Ogemdi Ude

Ogemdi Ude

Ogemdi Ude is a Nigerian-American dance and interdisciplinary artist, educator, and doula based in Brooklyn. Her performance work focuses on Black femme legacies and futures, grief, and memory.

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