Gibney Presented Artist Workshop: Ogemdi Ude

Forget How to Dance
with Ogemdi Ude

Gibney 280 Broadway (Studio C)

 $25

This workshop 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, choreographic tools, and phrase work that ask us to make something out of our disjointed memories. The physicality draws from my intersecting dance lineages: contemporary/post-modern and Southern majorettes. 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.

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