Interdisciplinary movement based artist, JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO creates performances that draw from both visual and literary aesthetics. Poetry and video-art heavily contribute to how KOSOKO renders his ideas and concepts into dance. 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 ). While KOSOKO has shown his own dances and dance-films atBennington College , Dance Theater Workshop, American Dance Festival, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, and Joyce SoHo among other venues, he has also been a resident artist at The Hudson School, Hoboken , NJ ; Community Education Center Meeting House Theater, Philadelphia , PA ; Earthdance, Plainsfield , MA . Currently, KOSOKO is in partnership with Melanie Stewart Dance and the 2008-2009 nEW Festival as a resident artist and is a member of Artists U, a non-profit organization focusing on professional development for Philadelphia based artists.
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