Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born on Making adaku, part 1: the road opens: Next Wave 2023

NY Premiere
Nov 28—Dec 2, 2023
Learn more: https://bit.ly/44XOwlg

Powerhouse performer, writer, and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili and director Peter Born offer an inside look at the making of their new dance-theater work. They share the personal and political histories and collaborative processes that led to a new speculative mythology in adaku, part 1: the road opens.

adaku, part 1: the road opens has its New York premiere at BAM, following earlier iterations at MoMA, ICA/Boston, and REDCAT.

Created by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born

Part of Next Wave 2023

Costume co-design by James Gibbel
Sound co-design by Will Johnson
Musical direction by Deah Love Harriott
Dramaturgy by Katherine Profeta

Commissioned by BAM for the 2023 Next Wave and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Developed in residency at The Museum of Modern Art as part of the Hyundai Card Performance Series, 2023 Summer Stages Dance @ ICA/Boston, Brown Arts Institute at Brown University and the Mercury Store. Additional support was provided by New England Foundation for the Arts.

MoMA video footage produced by Oresti Tsonopoulos