Ogemdi Ude
MAJOR
(New York/Atlanta)
February 12-14
Tickets $30-$37
Artist & Creative Community tickets $20-$30
“With powerful movements, flowing hip swings, and precise counts, they demonstrate how majorette — like vogueing and other subcultural practices — can integrate with contemporary dance to become, like MAJOR, a polyphonic, tenderly fierce homage to Black femininity.”
— Kampnagel, Hamburg
“25 to Watch…There is joy to be found in Ude’s work” but “if there’s a throughline to the genre-bending work of choreographer Ogemdi Ude, it’s how Black folks’ experiences — especially their grief — lives in their bodies.”
— Dance Magazine
Celebrating the power and legacy of majorette dance, a team of Southern Black femmes embodies the movement of their girlhood to answer the questions of their present. MAJOR preserves, transforms, and continues majorette tradition through electrifying movement, documentary theater, a live marching band, and an online interview archive. Exploring themes of physical memory, sexuality, and sensuality, this compelling new work honors and uplifts the creative practices and stories of the folks who taught the team how to be proudly Black and proudly femme.
Ogemdi Ude is a Nigerian-American dance artist, educator, and doula based in Harlem, New York and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. As an artist and educator, she supports others in investigating their cultural, familial, and personal histories — how they are embedded in their bodies and influence their everyday and performative movement.
