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Dark skinned Black woman with a 4c puff of hair looks swings her leg through the air while leaning back. 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 swings her leg through the air while leaning back. She is wearing a purple graffitied shirt and green pants. Photo by Elyse Mertz

*Please Note! Classes on December 6th and 13th will take place at Eden’s Expressway. All other classes take place at Danspace Project.

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.

What to expect: There will be a combination of improvisation exercises and phrase work, with heavy emphasis on taking your own approach to both. This is an open level class, but some dance background is encouraged.

Accessibility Notes

  • This class/workshop includes auditive guidance.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, Ogemdi Ude” prior to the class date you plan to attend.

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

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In-Person

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    Location

    Danspace Project (at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery)
    St, Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
    131 E 10th St
    New York, NY 10003

    • Get the Orange - IND Sixth Avenue Line numbers: F to 2nd Avenue
    • Get the Light slate gray - BMT Canarsie Line numbers: L to 3rd Avenue
    • Get the Yellow - BMT Broadway Line numbers: N , R to 8th Street - NYU
    • Get the Green - IRT Lexington Avenue Line numbers: 6 to Astor Place

    Location

    Eden’s Expressway
    537 Broadway 4th Fl
    New York, NY 10012

    • Get the Green - IRT Lexington Avenue Line numbers: 6 to Spring Street
    • Get the Yellow - BMT Broadway Line numbers: N , R to Prince Street
    • Get the Orange - IND Sixth Avenue Line numbers: B , D , F , M to Broadway - Lafayette

    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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