Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the Department of Dance are sponsoring a talk and performance by Ozuzu at 7:30 p.m. in the 3rd floor lecture hall at Levis Faculty Center. The event is titled “Art, Migration, and Entrepreneurship | Value Generation and Returns.”
Some background on Ozuzu from the press release:
Onye Ozuzu has dedicated much of her work as a dance artist to cultivating space for diverse dance forms to exist in pluralist relationship to one another. In her body she has negotiated the intersectionality between many movement forms from tennis to ballet, West African dance to Hatha Yoga, freestyle House to salsa, contemporary dance to Aikido. Rather than just “collecting” these dance styles, she cultivates the ability to make choices among these techniques with an intention to access a purposefully hybridized movement practice.
Ozuzu has presented work nationally and internationally at The Joyce Soho (Manhattan, NY), Kaay Fecc Festival Des Tous les Danses (Dakar, Senegal), La Festival del Caribe (Santiago, Cuba), Lisner Auditorium (Washington, DC), and McKenna Museum of African American Art (New Orleans, LA). She is a dance administrator, performing artist, choreographer, educator, and researcher currently serving as Dean of the University of Florida College of the Arts in Gainesville, FL.
This event is part of the 2018-2019 IPRH Race Work series.
Photo from ozuzudances.com
