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Ogemdi Ude (she/her) is a dance and interdisciplinary artist, educator, and doula based in Brooklyn. Her performance work focuses on Black femme legacies and futures, grief, and memory. Her work has been presented at the Kitchen, Gibney, Harlem Stage, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center, BRIC, ISSUE Project Room, Recess Art, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Center for Performance Research, and for BAM’s DanceAfrica festival.

As an educator, she has taught at the New School, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, and University of the Arts. She is a 2025–2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, 2024 NEFA National Dance Project Production Grant recipient, a Live Feed Residency Artist at New York Live Arts, and a 2024/2025 BAX Artist-in-Residence.

She has been a 2022–2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, 2021 danceWEB Scholar, 2021 Laundromat Project Create Change Artist-in-Residence, and a 2019–2020 Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Resident Fellow.

In January 2022, she appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine for their annual “25 to Watch” issue. Most recently, she published the essay Watch Me in a collection edited by Thomas DeFrantz and Annie-B Parson, Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study, published by Dancing Foxes Press and Wesleyan University Press.

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Selah Hampton (she/her) is a dance artist and collaborator, having recently performed in the premiere of Cameo, a work choreographed by Ogemdi Ude as a part of Gibney Presents 2023. Selah is also a Partner Success Associate Principal at Via Transportation, where she oversees 50+ public transportation micromobility services throughout the southeast. She serves as the chair for the Princeton Prize in Race Relations national board. Her civic engagement also includes serving on the junior board of directors of Girls Inc. NYC and as a member of the associate board for Teach For America NY. She was a 2023 BLCK VC Venture Fellow, 2022 KIPP Leadership Accelerator Fellow, and recipient of Built In’s 2022 Moxie award as an emerging woman in tech. Selah earned a BA from Princeton University in 2018 with a concentration in chemistry and certificates in African American studies and dance. She is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Myssi Robinson (she/her) is a Bessie award winning performer, multidisciplinary maker and caregiver from Powhatan lands / Richmond, VA. Robinson explores creative archiving, mixed-media making + design, ritual curiosities and her own improvising body. Through photography, video poetry, visual art response and spirit-forward witnessing, she asks how archival effort can flirt with embodiment, collective processing, affirmation of being and the blurring of legibility. In all her working, Intuition and empathy play with maximalist instinct to give life to what comes. Gratitude to Carolyn and Darrin for her life and abilities to create freely within it. may we all heal.

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Lambkin (she/they) is a musician, composer, choreographer, and director whose work spans electronic R&B/pop music, modern dance, and Black futurism. Their artistic vision is a place where the visceral meets the cerebral, where the natural enacts the synthetic. They explore Blackness as the break that might rupture our attachments to Worlds, territories, and Man.