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Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, UT Austin
Services
  • Choreography
  • Dance film
  • Movement research
Recognition
  • Festival awards (10x)
  • Canada Shorts Grand Prize (2025)
  • Paris Short Film Festival, Best LGBT Short Film
  • Stockholm City Film Festival, Best Experimental Film
  • LGBTQ+ Toronto & Los Angeles, Best Experimental Short
  • Kennedy Center commission (2020)
  • The REACH, first dance artist in residence (2019)
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1. Research

Record

  • Laboratories

    • The Sensorium Project – Integrated Lab, Phase I & II2025 – present
    • Global Movement Research (GMR) Laboratory – Phase II2024 – present
    • Global Movement Research (GMR) Laboratory – Phase I2023 – 2024
    • SEE Lab – Research Platform for Embodied Movement Scholarship2026 – present
    • TheMLM (The Movement Language Model)2026 – present

  • Appointments

    • Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance (Tenure-Track)Aug 2024 – present
    • Assistant Professor of Dance and Choreography (Tenure-Track)Aug 2019 – May 2024

  • Education

    • Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Dance, Choreography and Performance2016
    • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors in Theatre Arts2007

  • Inventions

    • Service

      • Founder, The Movement Journal · Global Movement Research2026 – present
      • Co-editor, Shaping Southern Shifts: Provocations in/through Laban Bartenieff Movement Studies2024 – present
      • Curator, Dance Film Organization2023 – present
      • Faculty Representative, American College Dance Association (ACDA)2025
      • Faculty Representative, American College Dance Association (ACDA)2024
    The SEE Lab platform ↗Curriculum vitae

    2. Teaching

    Contemporary West African Dance Masterclass · American College Dance Association · Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina · 2024

    Courses

    • Course development

      • Dance History I · TD 317M, 3 credits2024 – present
      • West African Dance · DANC 138W / DANC 3382016

    • Courses taught

      • Choreography II · TD 332N, 3 credits · Intermediate Contemporary Dance · TD 322D, 2 credits2026 (Spring)
      • Dance History I · TD 317M, 3 credits · Projects in Dance Performance and Repertory · TD 232P/332P, 2 credits2025 (Fall)
      • Choreography II · TD 322N, 3 credits · Projects in Dance Performance and Repertory · TD 232P/332P, 2 credits2025 (Spring)
      • Advanced Contemporary Dance · TD 322E, 3 credits · Projects in Dance Performance and Repertory · TD 232P/332P, 2 credits2024 (Fall)
      • Teaching, from 20082008

    • Advising

      • MFA Thesis First Reader2025 – 2026
      • Advising2024 – present

    3. Creative work

    Collections

    Work