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| Ogemdi Ude (photo: Maria Baranova) |
Ogemdi Ude's Cameo (WORLD PREMIERE)
April 20-22, 8pm EDT
curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa for Gibney Presents
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One of Dance Magazine's 25 Artists to Watch, Brooklyn-based dance and interdisciplinary artist Ogemdi Ude brings the world premiere of Cameo to Gibney Center as part of Gibney Presents, Gibney's premier presentation series, offering a rich bend of dance and performance in fully-produced, evening-length commissions.
Cameo is a duet about preserving and losing memories that features a multimedia installation, a live soundscape, and a complex improvised score. In it, Ude and her group of Black femme collaborators engage in an essential Black cultural practice – sharing the stories that make us who we are, even when we have forgotten pieces along the way. Structured as an elaborate memory card game, Cameo challenges the performers’ capacity to process, reinvent, and push forward after facing the obstacle of forgetting in the mind and the body.
Each performance will feature a different pair of artists, giving audiences the opportunity to see the work from different perspectives.
Cameo is choreographed by Ogemdi Ude and performed by Runako Campbell, Selah V. Hampton, and Dava Huesca. Cameo’s rehearsal collaborator is Symara Johnson.
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