MÉ DUNIYA
An interdisciplinary dance and technology collaboration exploring Nigerian dance forms through tactile sensing and projection mapping. Part of The Sensorium Project.
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WELCOME
● ONGOING
WELCOME TO MY LAB
This is where I explore the past — not for nostalgia, but for understanding. For growth.
As you walk through these works with me, you'll notice they don't arrive from triumph. They arrive from
pain, from mistakes, from the kind of hurt that stays lodged in the heart and refuses to leave quietly.
I won't pretend those mistakes made me a better artist. That would be a lie. But I have learned to reach
into that pain and pull something from it — moments of clarity, fragments of healing, and occasionally, art.
My creative practice is deeply intertwined with the Global Movement Research archive — a living system that preserves and honors the movement traditions that inform my work. Where creative practice explores, GMR remembers.
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PERFORMANCES
● STAGE WORKS
LIVE PERFORMANCE
I'LL MARRY WHEN I WANT
Contemporary dance inspired by the East African play exploring class, gender, culture, and the tension between modernity and tradition.
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Fusion of Nigerian and Brazilian dance traditions exploring identity and otherness. With Pablo Regis de Oliveira and Dr. Kathleen Spanos.
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FILMS
● SCREEN WORKS
DANCE FILM
TEN POEM PROJECT: AUNTIE
Award-winning autoethnographic dance film exploring migration, queerness, aging, trauma, and resilience through a decade of asylum-pending life.
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A film about deep isolation and depression faced living in a foreign land. After this film came out, I finally reached for help.
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Dance film exploring trauma and memory through West African movement vocabularies. An early work that established thematic threads carried forward.
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INSTALLATIONS
● SITE-SPECIFIC
INSTALLATION WORK
ROAMS
Site-specific installation at UMD Metal Shop exploring privilege and marginalization through spatial intervention and embodied presence.
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