Okwui Okpokwasili
Photo: Peter Born
Okwui Okpokwasili is a Brooklyn-based performance maker. Her work includes two Bessie Award winning productions: “Pent-Up: a revenge dance” and “Bronx Gothic.” Other productions include “Poor People’s TV Room,” and “Adaku’s Revolt.” Okpokwasili recently co-curated the Danspace Project Platform “Utterances from the Chorus.”
Her commissions, residencies and awards include: 10th Annual Berlin Biennale Commission, 2018 Doris Duke Artist Award in Contemporary Dance, 2018 USA Artist Fellow, 2018 Princeton Hodder Fellow, 2018 Herb Alpert Award in Dance, LMCC’s Extended Life Program (2013-2016, 2019); The Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Artist Grant in Dance (2014), MoMA, The Young Vic, Tate Modern. Okpokwasili is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.
