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Flash:
A New Choreography
by Qudus Onikeku

Qudus Onikeku in Lost Face (c) Antoine Tempe

February 18, 2013 Qudus Onikeku Mary Ann Brooks (MFA 2014)

FLASH: A New Choreography was created by Qudus Onikeku, UC Davis Granada Artist-in-Residence during winter quarter 2013. Onikeku is a preeminent performance artist known for his Yoruba culture-based choreography that fuses together movement philosophies of hip hop, capoeira and Nigerian masquerade tradition. FLASH: A New Choreography was Onikeku’s poetic and multidisciplinary presentation of painful memories.

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February 18, 2013 Qudus Onikeku Mary Ann Brooks (MFA 2014)

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Qudus Onikeku
Granada Artist-in-Residence Winter 2013

January 25, 2013

The Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to announce Qudus Onikeku, one of the preeminent Nigerian choreographers working today, as Winter 2013 Granada Artist-in-Residence.

Born in Lagos, Onikeku graduated from the National Higher School of Circus Arts in Chalons-en-Champagne, France. Often inspired by his Yoruban culture, Onikeku conducts artistic research in Africa and has toured the United States, the Caribbean and Europe with artists including Heddy Maalem, Christophe Abdul Onibasa, George Lavaudent, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Jean Claude Galotta.

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Mary Ann Brooks (MFA 2014)

January 28, 2013

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