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  • Monday-Friday, July 22 - 26, 2024 | 1:30-3:30PM
Ogemdi Ude, a dark skinned Black femme, is wearing a puffy purple dress in a room surrounded by colorful balloons and LED floor lights. Her mouth is open with her head tilted up and one leg is raised with the other planted on the floor. Her hands are at her sides. Photo by Maria Baranova.
ID: Ogemdi Ude, a dark skinned Black femme, is wearing a puffy purple dress in a room surrounded by colorful balloons and LED floor lights. Her mouth is open with her head tilted up and one leg is raised with the other planted on the floor. Her hands are at her sides. Photo by Maria Baranova.

Drop ins: $26-$45 per day Mon & Tue sessions only

Rant. Preach. Soliloquize. Say your piece.
In this workshop we will explore how to incorporate dialogue authentically into dance practice. Language becomes as essential as movement as we work with games, interviews, and scores to imbue performance with the personal. In our dancing, we will work with weight, levity, tension, and release to find physical rigor and approaches to improvisation that intertwine with vocal challenges. This is not an acting class. It’s an opportunity to bring your holistic self into performance and talk the shit you need to talk.

What to expect:
We will begin each class with movement improvisation tasks and games to warm up the body, before folding in language improvisation tasks and games. I will teach examples of bridging dialogue and dance through the lens of recent performance projects and will offer sample structures for students to try. Students will eventually create their own scores, games, and challenges to perform. We will stop throughout class for written reflection and to discuss our progress.

People are encouraged to bring notebooks and pens.

Accessibility notes

  • This class/workshop includes auditive guidance.
  • This class/workshop includes readings.

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 “Ogemdi Ude.”

Class will be photographed on the Friday of the workshop.

Past workshop

Location

122CC, 2nd Floor
150 1st Avenue
New York, NY 10009

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Artists

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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