Kosoko: From empathy to bitter laughter.

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

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BSR Contributor Since December 29, 2007

Poet and interdisciplinary performance artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko. Visit his website at www.kosokoperformance.org.

Poet and interdisciplinary performance artist, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko creates spectacle-dance installations that draw from visual, literary, and theatrical aesthetics. Kosoko has performed in the choreographic works of various artists and companies, including Ann Carlson, Yoshiko Chuma, Terry Creach, Lisa Kraus, Helen Lesterlin, Richard Siegal, Kate Watson-Wallace, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Headlong Dance Theater, Leah Stein Dance Company, Emergent Improvisation Ensemble, and, Faustin Linyekula and Les Studios Kabako (The Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa).

He is a member of Artists U, a non-profit organization focusing on professional development for Philadelphia based dance and theater artists, and an office administrator for Dance/USA Philadelphia.

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Will these characters ever be able to leave this space?’ (Photo: Karl Seifert.)

Scrap's "Tide' at Fringe Festival

The roar of the city, the peace of the garden

Amid mirrors, trash and other lost objects of urban life strewn about Isaiah's Magic Garden, Myra Bazell's Tide reflects a world in which humans have disconnected from the natural environment. It's a treasure hunt for performers and audience alike.
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Articles 3 minute read
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Searching for meaning in Meg Foley's "slip'

Choreographer Meg Foley insists that audiences can read whatever they want in her experimental work slip. I came away with several questions. But maybe that’s my problem, not hers.

Moving Research: slip. Choreography by Meg Foley. Through May 17, 2008 at Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave. www.danceboxoffice.com.
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Articles 6 minute read

Megan Bridge interviewed

Megan Bridge’s Subject in Two Parts is a dance study of the nature of identity, invoking real-life celebrities. A week before it’s opening, she talks about dance, audiences and what she hopes to achieve.

Subject in Two Parts. Choreography by Megan Bridge; directed by Greg Giovanni. May 2-4, 2008 at Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave. (215) 387-1911 or ww.cecarts.org.
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Articles 6 minute read
723 Jaamil Kosoko by Dan Conrath

The power of dancers

In a world of suicide bombers, soldiers and crying children, why am I dancing? Because armies of dancers possess a unique power too— including the power to help us forget, if only for a moment, that we are dying.
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Articles 5 minute read