Okwui Okpokwasili

Okwui Okpokwasili

出生 : 1972-08-06,

略歴

Okwui Okpokwasili (born August 6, 1972) is an Igbo-Nigerian American artist, performer, choreographer, and writer. Her multidisciplinary performances draw upon her training in theatre, and she describes her work as at "the intersection of theatre, dance, and the installation." Several of her works relate to historical events in Nigeria. She is especially interested in subjects of cultural and historical memory and how the Western imagination perceives of African bodies. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Okwui Okpokwasili

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エクソシスト 信じる者
Dr. Beehibe
When his daughter, Angela, and her friend Katherine, show signs of demonic possession, it unleashes a chain of events that forces single father Victor Fielding to confront the nadir of evil. Terrified and desperate, he seeks out Chris MacNeil, the only person alive who's witnessed anything like it before.
Remote
Finding new cinematic language to express the desire for physical contact in our increasingly isolated, mediated, and highly consumer-driven environments, Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi’s Remote follows the daily routines of a quarantined woman (Okwui Okpokwasili) in her sealed-off, ultra-modern apartment, where she falls down a rabbit hole playing an inexplicable interactive game with a community of women from around the world.
マスター ~見えない敵~
Custodial Worker
At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.
Altostratus: An Allegory
Altostratus clouds are grey or blue grey. The sun or moon may shine through these clouds but it's signaling that a storm is on the way. This is a piece involving movement, sound, and text. It is meant to hold a space for reflection, to consider what hangs above us and how it all may fall.
Altostratus: An Allegory
Choreographer
Altostratus clouds are grey or blue grey. The sun or moon may shine through these clouds but it's signaling that a storm is on the way. This is a piece involving movement, sound, and text. It is meant to hold a space for reflection, to consider what hangs above us and how it all may fall.
Altostratus: An Allegory
Writer
Altostratus clouds are grey or blue grey. The sun or moon may shine through these clouds but it's signaling that a storm is on the way. This is a piece involving movement, sound, and text. It is meant to hold a space for reflection, to consider what hangs above us and how it all may fall.
Altostratus: An Allegory
Director
Altostratus clouds are grey or blue grey. The sun or moon may shine through these clouds but it's signaling that a storm is on the way. This is a piece involving movement, sound, and text. It is meant to hold a space for reflection, to consider what hangs above us and how it all may fall.
It's Not About Jimmy Keene
Aliza Bethea
The police shooting of an unarmed black teen causes friction within a mixed-race Los Angeles family. Ivan, the youngest sibling, is stalked by visions of Jimmy Keene’s floating corpse. Torn between the opposing worldviews of his two older sisters, Ivan searches for his voice while the family divisions heighten after the parents take sides.
Madeline's Madeline
Nurse, KK
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Bronx Gothic
Herself
From director Andrew Rossi (PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY) comes an electrifying portrait of writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili and her acclaimed one-woman show, BRONX GOTHIC. Rooted in memories of her childhood, Okwui – who’s worked with conceptual artists like Ralph Lemon and Julie Taymor – fuses dance, song, drama, and comedy to create a mesmerizing space in which audiences can engage with a story about two 12-year-old black girls coming of age in the 1980s. With intimate vérité access to Okwui and her audiences off the stage, BRONX GOTHIC allows for unparalleled insight into her creative process as well as the complex social issues embodied in it.
Her Composition
Kim
A college music student turns to prostitution to make a little cash and look for inspiration, as she has blocked on a major musical composition that she must create in order to graduate.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Queen Hippolyta
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.
アイ・アム・レジェンド
Infected
ロバート・ネビルは優れた科学者だが、彼でさえ、その恐ろしいウイルスを食い止めるすべを知らなかった。それは誰にも封じることができず、治すこともかなわず、しかも、人間が作り出したウイルスだった。なぜか免疫があったネビルは、荒れ果てたニューヨークで――あるいは世界で――ただ1人生き残っている。この3年間、彼は毎日几帳面に無線でメッセージを流し続け、必死にほかの生存者を捜してきた。だが、確かに彼は"1人"ではなかった。ウイルスに侵され、変異した人間たちが闇に潜み、彼を見つめていたのだ。ネビルを駆りたてているのは唯一残った使命、それは、彼自身の免疫のある血液を使ってウイルスの影響を改善する方法を見つけること。しかし、彼には圧倒的多数の敵が迫り、時間は刻々となくなっていく...。
The Hoax
Malika
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
ザ・インタープリター
U.N. Tour Guide
国連で通訳として働くシルビアは、謎の人物たちのグー語の会話から、ある人物の暗殺計画を偶然立ち聞きしてしまう。彼女の周りに怪しい人物が暗躍し、シークレット・サービスのトビンが彼女を守る任務につく。