Okwui Okpokwasili

Okwui Okpokwasili is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces. Her highly experimental productions include Bessie Award-winning pent-up: a revenge dance , Bessie Award-winning Bronx Gothic , as well as poor people's TV room , poor people's TV room (SOLO) , when I return who will receive me , Adaku's revolt , and the participatory performance installation Sitting on a Man's Head . In 2022, she was the inaugural artist for the Kravis...See more

Okwui Okpokwasili is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces. Her highly experimental productions include Bessie Award-winning pent-up: a revenge dance , Bessie Award-winning Bronx Gothic , as well as poor people's TV room , poor people's TV room (SOLO) , when I return who will receive me , Adaku's revolt , and the participatory performance installation Sitting on a Man's Head . In 2022, she was the inaugural artist for the Kravis Studio Residency program at MoMA. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a 2018 Princeton University Hodder Fellowship, a 2018 Herb Alpert Award in Dance, a 2018 Doris Duke Artist Award, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship. See less