CHOREOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
Dance films, performances, installations, and choreographic works exploring migration, embodied archive, cultural confluence, and speculative futures.
Dance film exploring migration, queerness, aging, trauma, and resilience through 12 poems and embodied movement. A writing-to-film practice developed across a decade of asylum-pending life in the United States.
Soft robotics and fluidic/haptic sensing in dance performance. The ACCS system translates touch intensity into real-time visual and spatial transformations. Part of The Sensorium Project.
VIEW LAB →Behind-the-scenes documentation of The Sensorium Project installation setup, technical infrastructure, and the ACCS (Affective-Computational Choreography System) in action.
VIEW LAB →Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Black History Month commission by Sinclair Dance. The journey of two young men, one from Israel and the other from Nigeria, both gay men seeking protection from countries where homosexuality is criminal. In collaboration with BREathe Dance Project and Artistic Director Bre Seals.
KENNEDY CENTER →Week-long Kennedy Center artist residency at The REACH, the Kennedy Center's newest campus. Developed new choreographic work exploring pre-African dance roots and contemporary African dance practices. A Sinclair Dance production.
KENNEDY CENTER →Sandy Springs Museum commission in collaboration with Dance In Time dance organization. A Sinclair Dance production exploring themes of connection and separation through movement.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →Dance and music project examining "identity" (ainihi in Hausa) and "otherness" (alteridade in Portuguese) based on Nigerian and Brazilian traditions. Created with Pablo Regis de Oliveira and Kate Spanos for NextLOOK at The Clarice.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →Site-specific installation exploring privilege and marginalization through Nigerian traditional dance frameworks. Performed at The Arts and Sociology Metal Shop, University of Maryland.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →Dance work exploring themes of trauma, memory, and the subconscious through West African movement vocabularies. Presented at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Maryland.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →Experimental film iteration of Nyam Chiem, exploring alternative visual and choreographic approaches to the original work.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →Large-scale Nigerian dance film commissioned by WXYZ Arts Factory and produced by The Royal Arts Academy, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria. Created for Nollywood audiences, marking an early exploration of dance film as medium.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →33 motion capture visualizations across 6 traditions. Three.js-powered 3D renderings of embodied dance data with multiple display modes. Part of Global Movement Research.
VIEW GMR LAB →Early performance work exploring stillness, pause, and the spaces between movement.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →Performance exploring the duality of human emotion and the consequences of extremes.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →Installation work exploring hidden dimensions of movement and embodied knowledge.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →Dance film exploring healing, processing, and the therapeutic dimensions of movement practice.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →Collaboration with Stephen Vitiello at Virginia Commonwealth University, Spring 2024. Directed and choreographed by Sinclair Emoghene. Original sound design by Stephen Vitiello. Director of Photography: Evan McNair. Dancers and Tumblers: Addison Harksen and Robert Parietti. Location Manager: Alexandre Jones. Support: School of the Arts - Virginia Commonwealth University.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE →Contemporary dance inspired by the 1970 East African play "Ngaahika Ndeenda" by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii. Exploring themes of class struggle, poverty, gender, culture, religion, and the tension between modernity and tradition through movement that navigates the complexities and constraints imposed by societal expectations.
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Developing technological interfaces that reenvision how dance can be performed, preserved, and circulated across modern societies. Core innovations: mobile applications, advanced archival dance platforms, and sensorial studio spaces for experiential performance and activation.
REGIONAL DANCE COMPANY
Regional dance company in the Washington D.C. area. Major performances include Sandy Springs Museum commission with Dance In Time for "TogethRAPart" (2018), Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Black History Month commission "Kaleidoscope of Tuts" (2020), and week-long Kennedy Center residency at The REACH.
VIEW KENNEDY CENTER PERFORMANCE →BENIN CITY, NIGERIA
Dance company established in 2009 in Benin City, Nigeria. Core activities include developing young talents in the region and performing both regionally and nationally. Seminal work: commission of the large-scale Nigerian dance film "I'll Take My Chances" produced by The Royal Arts Academy (2011).