Ogemdi Ude

Finding the Right Dance: Ogemdi Ude in Conversation with Selah V. Hampton (An Excerpt)

May 10, 2022

Two Black women are positioned on opposite ends of a church studio with a mic stand wrapped in braids stand in front of them. Their arms are extended out with knees bent and heads thrown back.

Ogemdi Ude’s I know exactly what you mean premieres May 12-14 at Danspace Project as a part of Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). For the purpose of the Platform 2022 catalogue, Ude sat down to… Read more

PLATFORM 2022 Schedule of Events

May 5, 2022

A portrait of two men smiling on the beach. On the left, a white man with dark hair pulled back leans in, sunlight streaming across his face. to the right, a black man with short dark hair and freckles reaches forward to take the shot. iele takes a selfie on a ferry boat. iele is a white genderqueer person with dark curls and eyes. They wear a large fur-lined hood and wire-rimmed glasses, and look content with a subtle closed-mouth smile. Their lips are a bit rosy from the cool air. In the background, there is the East River and NY city skyline at sunset. The colors in the sky range from pale blue to light orange, with a couple of soft grey clouds. The water reflects the light from the sky in ripples. A dark skinned Black femme with a short afro is pictured in front of a grey concrete wall. Her arms are extended out past her side while she leans in the opposite direction.mayfield, in a dark theater wailing with their eyes closed, arm reaching above them, gripping the concrete wall behind them.

APRIL 23 Conversations Without Walls: The Dream of the Artist 12PM-1:30PM ET APRIL 28-30 Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener: RETROFIT: a new age Thursday, April 28, 4-8PM ET Friday, April 29, 4-8PM ET Saturday, April 30, 2-6PM ET … Read more

A DraftWork: Video Vixen, formerly known as Video Ho. Ogemdi Ude in Conversation with Seta Morton

December 6, 2019

Two women in matching black turtlenecks and gray sweat pants are on the church sanctuary floor, one sitting on her knees upright, and one is lying on her belly curling in on the side of her body that faces the camera. A microphone stand, dressed in many thick brown, orange and white braids with green ribbons woven through, is foregrounded in the center.

In November I sat down with Ogemdi Ude to extend a conversation initiated by Ishmael Houston-Jones after the October 19, 2019 DraftWork showing of Ude’s Video Vixen, formerly known as Video Ho. Conversations between Danspace Project artists, staff,… Read more

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