Calendar
2023
Performance April 18 – 22
- Françoise Dô’s Juilette 1961, Théâtre Ouvert (France)
Performance April 4 – 7
- Françoise Dô’s Juilette 1961, La Comedie (France)
Performance March 21
- An Immigrant’s Story (accessible in French sign language & audiodescription), Le Tangram (France)
Research residency February – March
- Villa Albertine (USA)
Guest teaching January – April
- Dance in Paris program with the University of South Florida
Guest teaching January
- Fari Foni Waati • Lab & Festival (Mali)
2022
Performance December 7 – 11
- Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic, Festival d’Automne à Paris (France)
Performance November 24
- An Immigrant’s Story (accessible in French sign language & audiodescription), L’ONDE Théâtre (France)
Guest teaching October
- Educational & community engagement program (L’ONDE Théâtre, France)
Performance October 13 – 15
- An Immigrant’s Story (accessible in French sign language & audiodescription), Le Quartz (France)
Guest teaching October
- Sobornne University (France)
Performance June 26
- Nathalie Pubellier’s project, SIX, Centre Tchéque (France)
Performance May 21 – 22
- River Lin project, My body is a queer history museum, Lafayette Anticipation (France)
Performance May 21 – 22
- Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic, Kunsten Festival des Arts (Beligum)
Performance May 16
- En guise de bienvenue (solo), Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (France)
Performance March 29 – April 13
- An Immigrant’s Story (solo), Dansnät Sverige (Sweden)
Workshops March 19 – 20
- Le Palace (France)
Performance March 18
- An Immigrant’s Story (solo), Le Palace (France)
Guest teaching February 7 – 11
- National Center for Dance (France)
Performance February 1
- An Immigrant’s Story (accessible in French sign language), Espace 1789 (France)
Performance January 25 – 26
- An Immigrant’s Story (accessible in French sign language & audiodescription), Pôle Sud / CDCN Strasbourg (France)
Guest teaching January 10 – 19
- University of South Florida (USA)
Guest artist January – May
- Community project Assemblée (National Center for Dance, France)
- Educational & community engagement program (Rencontres Choréraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, France)
2021
Performance December 4
- En guise de bienvenue (solo), Festival BAM (Mali)
Performance November 1 – 2
2020
Performance December 11 – cancelled // COVID // new date September 24, 2021
- An Immigrant’s Story (solo), L’échangeur / CDCN Hauts-de-France (Chateau Thierry, France)
Performances December 4 – 6 cancelled // COVID // new date November 19-20,2021
- An Immigrant’s Story (solo), Musée de l’Histoire d’Immigration in partnership with Théâtres de la Ville (France)
Performance November 24 – cancelled // COVID // ATTN: November 26 – 27, 3pm, private performance for registered presenters, directors and curators. Reservations are required and strict sanitary protocal will be ensured. For more information please contact producer Dirk Korell via email: [email protected]
- An Immigrant’s Story (solo), L’Espace 1789 (France)
Workshop 9 au 13 novembre – cancelled // COVID
- micadanse : Entraînment de danseurs professionels
Performance November 5 – performance cancelled // COVID // presentation of project via zoom
- An Immigrant’s Story (solo), Manekine, Scène intermédiaire, in partnership with la Faïencerie, Scène conventionnée de Creil in conjunction with La Croisée – a professional platform & gathering of presenters, curators, directors of theater, dance, music in the Hauts-de-France region.
Performance October 16 – world première
- An Immigrant’s Story (solo), La Manufacture / CDCN Nouvelle Aquitaine (Bordeaux * La Rochelle)
Creation
- An Immigrant’s Story (solo), production camin aktion
Performances March 8th and 9th
- Pygmalion and Amour & Psyché, performer in collaobration with director & choreographer Robyn Orlin; musical direction Emmanuel Haïm, Théâtre de Caen (France)
Performances February 27th & 29th
- Pygmalion and Amour & Psyché, performer in collaobration with director & choreographer Robyn Orlin; musical direction Emmanuel Haïm, Théâtre de la Ville (Luxembourg)
Performance February 4th
- Portraits in red (solo), Scène National de Chalon-sur-Saône, Espace des Arts
2019
Choreographic commission September through December
- Theater work, “Love is in the Hair” director Jean-Francois Auguste, playwright Laëtitia Ajanohun
Creation / Tour (France) season 2019/20
- Young audiences project TWICE: performer in collaboration with choreographers Robyn Orlin & Emmanuel Eggermont (Centre Chorégraphic National, Roubaix, France, production)
Guest Artist Workshop June 17th to 21st
- Professional Training, Micadanse (Paris, France)
- University of South Florida programs Dance and Theater in Paris (France)
Guest Artist Workshop March 16th and 17th
- Centre National de la Dance (Pantin, France)
Performances January 16th, 18th, 20th, 22nd and 24th
- Pygmalion and Amour & Psyché, performer in collaobration with director & choreographer Robyn Orlin, Opera de Lille (France)
2018
Guest Artist Workshop December 11th
- Choreography workshop, Théâtre de la Cite International (Paris, France)
Artist Talk November 17th
- “Décoloniser les corps et les représentations” (Decolonization of the body and its representations) with researcher Sylvie Chalaye, laboratoire SeFeA de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and actress Sephora Pondi at the Théâtre de la Cite International (Paris, France)
Performance October 25th
- Improvisation, Grand opening of Aké Arts and Books Festival (Lagos, Nigeria)
Performances October 24th
- Portraits in red (solo), Grand opening of Ouida House Bookstore (Lagos, Nigeria)
Performance October 20th
- Improvisation with singer Ire Toluhi, Daniel Pearl Music Days Festival (Hilton Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria)
Guest Artist – African Regional Service US State Department October 14th to 26th
- Choreography/Technique workshops (Krump Studios, Abuja, Nigeria & Freedom Park, Lagos, Nigeria)
- Dance workshops (PEFTI Film Institute Lagos, Nigeria)
Performances June 30th – July 1st
- Portraits in red (solo), Festival Lieux Mouvants (Lanrivain, France)
Performances March 25th
- Portraits in red (solo), Musée de l’histoire d’immigration (Paris, France)
Performances March 8th
- Portraits in red (solo), Fondation des États Unis (Paris, France)
2017
Performances December 9th
- Portraits in red (solo), Pointe Éphémère (Paris, France)
Performances November 27th to December 1st
- Portraits in red (solo), East African Nights of Tolerance Festival (Kigali, Rwanda)
Performances November 21st to 23rd
- Portraits in red (solo), Kinani International Contemporary Dance Festival (Maputo, Mozambique)
Performances August 10th
- Portraits in red (solo), L’église de Saint-Victoire-La-Rivière (Saint Nectaire, France)
Creation/Workshops July 26th to August 16th
- Choreography and master classes for Euroculture (65 aspiring artists, 7 European countries & 11 refugees from Sudan, Syria and Afghanistan (Auvergne region, France)
Performances July 1st and 2nd
- Portraits in red (solo), Festival Clignancourt Danse sur les Rails (Jardin du Ruisseau, Paris, France)
Performances March 31st
- Spiral (solo), Festival Generation A, Theater Paris-Villette (Paris, France)
Creation/Workshops January – May
- Choreography and master classes Dance in Paris / University of South Florida (Paris, France)
May 1st to 5th
- Professional Training Program, Menagerie de Verre (Paris, France)
March 27th to 31st
- Professional Training Program, Menagerie de Verre (Paris, France)
2016
Performances February 20th
- At the moment of encounter (group version), Black Choreographers Festival, Dance Mission Theater, (San Francisco, USA)
Creation/Workshops November 28 to December 2nd
- Professional Training Program, Micadanse (Paris, France)
July
- Master classes for Eun-mi Ahn community project 1.59, Paris Quartier d’Ete
January – May
- Choreography and master classes Dance in Paris / University of South Florida (Paris, France)
April 22nd to 24th
- Manoeuvre (Grenoble, France)
2015
Performances November 19th – 21st
- At the moment of encounter (group version), premiere, Mills College Lisser Theater (Oakland, USA)
October 31st
- At the moment of encounter (solo version), world premiere at the Festival de Danse (Lourdes, France)
October 10th
- Spiral (solo version), Terra di Tutti Art Festival (Bologna, Italy)
September 12th and 24th
- At the moment of encounter (excerpt) at DANCENOW NYC Festival, Joe’s Pub (New York, USA)
May 15th
- At the moment of encounter (work in progress) at Lisser Theater (Oakland, USA)
May 3rd
- At the moment of encounter at SAFEhouseARTS (San Francisco, USA)
May 1st
- An encounter, commission by physical theater company Inkboat at City Hall (San Francisco, USA)
March 23rd
- At the moment of encounter (work-in-progress) through the performance series Movement Research at the Judson Church (New York, USA)
January 17th to 24th
- Spiral (solo version) at Le Festival International de Danse de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
Guest Artist Teaching and Creative Residency January 26th to May 14th
- Mills College (Oakland, USA)
2014
Performances November 1st
- Spiral (solo version) at The Festival Danse (Lourdes, France)
October 27th
- Spiral (solo version) at University of South Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
August 19th
- Spiral (solo version) at The Firkin Crane (Cork, Ireland)
Guest Artist Teaching ,Creative and Production Residencies August 16 – 19th
- Production Residency at The Firkin Crane (Cork, Ireland)
August 4 – 15th
- BLANK CANVAS at The Firkin Crane, (Cork, Ireland)
Master Talk June 19th
- Pawa254 Art Rising(Nairobi, Kenya)
Informal Showings March 26 and May 16th
- Centre National de la Danse (Paris, France)
Guest Artist Teaching October 21st, 23-24th
- Master classes for dance company Moving Into Dance Mophatong (Johannesburg, South Africa)
January 25, February 8 and September to December
- Workshops for Théâtre L’Espace 1789 (Paris, France)
2013
Performances April
- Fragmented Thoughts (Michigan tour Ann Arbor and surrounding cities, USA)
March 8 to 10
- when paradise shatters at its seams then what? at The Bonstelle Theater (Detroit, USA)
October 4 to 5
- Première of reconstructed solo, Spiral at Conwell Dance Theater (Philadelphia, USA)
October 10
- danceNOW Joe’s Pub Festival (New York City, USA)
October 15
- Spiral (solo version) at Slippery Rock University Dance Department (Pittsburgh, USA)
October 26
- Spiral (solo version) at artLabJ (Detroit, USA)
November 21 to 22
- Spiral (group version) at the Lisser Theater (Oakland, USA)
November 23 to 24
- Spiral (group version) at ODC Theater (San Francisco, USA)
November 23
- Fragmented Thoughts at the Oakland Dance Festival (Farmington Hills, USA)
Guest Artist Teaching and Creative Residencies January 8 to March 2
- Stephens College World Dance Guest Artist (Columbia USA)
March 11 to 17, October 21 to 25 and November 4 to 22
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA)
March 19 to 29
- Mills College (Oakland, USA)
Guest Artist Teaching Residencies March 5
- Body Rhythm Dance Theater (Detroit, USA)
March 9 to 10
- artLabJ (Detroit, USA)
June 15
- Micadanses (Paris, France)
October 1 to 4
- Temple University (Philadelphia, USA)
October 7
- Rutgers University (New Brunswick, USA)
October 8
- Coppin State University (Baltimore, USA)
October 9
- Towson University (Towson, USA)
October 14 to 15
- Slippery Rock Univeristy (Pittsburgh, USA)
October 27 to November 1
- Ohio University (Athens, USA)
Creative Residency May to September
- Centre National de la Danse (Paris, France)
Professional Development April 17 to 19
- Hofesh Shechter Company Dance/Choreography Intensive (London, UK)
2012
Performances
- Bill T. Jones’ Tony Award winning Broadway musical, FELA! First European and US National Tours
Guest Artist Teaching and Creative Residency November 12 to 21
- Maggie Allesee Guest Artist Wayne State University (Detroit, USA)
2011
Performances
- Bill T. Jones’ Tony Award winning Broadway musical, FELA! First European and US National Tours
2010
Performances
- Julie Taymor’s Tony and Molière winning Broadway musical, The Lion King, Théâtre Mogador (Paris, France)
- Bill T. Jones’ Tony Award winning Broadway musical, FELA!, The Royal National Theatre (London, UK)