Choreography
18 yrsKaleidoscope of Tuts · Peace Ball · Love + Peace = Bad Names
Snapshot
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Dance film
since 2011Rooted in Motion: The Ten Poem Project (Auntie) · Therapy · I'll Take My Chances
Movement research
6 yrsThe Sensorium Project · Global Movement Research (GMR) Laboratory · SEE Lab · TheMLM (The Movement Language Model)
Teaching
since 2008Choreography II · Intermediate Contemporary Dance · Dance History I · Projects in Dance Performance and Repertory · Advanced Contemporary Dance
Curation
since 2023Dance Film Organization
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Mé Duniya is the first live performance test of my Sensorium Project, an ongoing exploration where dance, touch, and soft-robotic sensing meet on stage. In this work, the dancers dance with a custom-built fluidic haptic sleeve developed in collaboration with Dr. Lillian Chin and her students at UT Austin. The sleeve picks up pressure, vibration, and micro-movement in real time, translating them into shifting light and atmosphere in the space. Every strain, breath, tremor, and grounding turning into visible texture around me. This performance was my first attempt to bring the lab into the theatre, to let technology listen without controlling it. In this work, I ask "how can technology truly serve humans with different body-types and abilities." Mé Duniya (“What is this world?”) is also personal. As my knees change, as my body shifts through injury and age, I am searching for new ways to dance and new ways to understand what the body feels when words fall short.
Details- Year
- 2025
- Photography
- Sarah A. Navarrete, courtesy of The University of Texas at Austin
- Costume
- Allison Normin Johnson
- Set design
- Alik B Clay
- Sound and projection
- Desne Wharton
- Place
- DRT, UT Austin
Kaleidoscope of Tuts, Parts One and Two, commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Millennium Stage and presented with VCU Dance Now, February 2020. The full performance leads this row, and the work is here as it was danced.
Details- Year
- 2020
- Performers
- Sinclair Dance Company, VCUArts Dance + Choreography and other independent artists in Washington D.C.
- Music
- Brian Bryson
- Place
- The Kennedy Center, Washington
A collaboration with Stephen Vitiello, made at Virginia Commonwealth University in the spring of 2024. I directed and choreographed the work, and Stephen Vitiello made its original sound design. The dancers and tumblers are Addison Harksen and Robert Parietti.
Details- Year
- 2024
- Direction and choreography
- Sinclair Emoghene
- Original sound design
- Stephen Vitiello
- Director of photography
- Evan McNair
- Dancers and tumblers
- Addison Harksen and Robert Parietti
- Location manager
- Alexandre Jones
- Support
- School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Place
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
A short dance film by Sinclair Emoghene.
Details- Year
- 2025
- Written by
- Sinclair Emoghene
- Adapted for the screen and directed by
- Nakoa Taggart, Gabriel Vasquez
- Cast
- Giovanni Ledezma, Jalani Miller, Lauren Troyer, Nakoa Taggart and Sinclair Emoghene
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- Rooted in Motion: The Ten Poem Project (Auntie)2025
- Mé Duniya2025
- The Sensorium Project2025 – 2026
- Experimental Collaboration and Live Performance2024
- Therapy Dances2021
- Facets of Esoterics2020
- Kaleidoscope of Tuts2020
- Togethr A Part2018
- Love + Hate = Bad Names2016
- ROAMS, Rooted On A Moving Spot2016
- Exploration B2015
- Nyam Chiem2015
- Exploration A2014
- NAFEST Rehearsal2012
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- Grand Prize, Canada Shorts, Canadian & International Short Film Festival2025
- Best Experimental, Canada Shorts2025
- Best Director, Canada Shorts2025
- Best Cinematography, Canada Shorts2025
- Best Score, Canada Shorts2025
- Best International Short, Canada Shorts2025
- Documentary, Canada Shorts2025
- Best LGBT Short Film, Paris Short Film Festival2026
- Best Experimental Film, Stockholm City Film Festival2026
- Best Experimental Short, LGBTQ+ Toronto & Los Angeles Film Festival2026
- Honorable mention, ATX Short Film Showcase2025
- Finalist, Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (TINFF)2026
- NextLOOK Alumni AwardUniversity of Maryland Distinguished Award for Alumni of the Year2016
- International Teaching FellowshipTeaching & Learning Transformation Center, University of Maryland2015
- Dean FellowshipDepartment of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, University of Maryland2013
- Service Excellence AwardNational Youth Service Corps, Enugu State, Nigeria2008
- Best Dancer AwardDepartment of Theatre Arts, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria2005
10 festival awards across 4 festivals for Rooted in Motion: The Ten Poem Project.
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- Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance (Tenure-Track)Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TXAug 2024 – present
- Assistant Professor of Dance and Choreography (Tenure-Track)Department of Dance and Choreography, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VAAug 2019 – May 2024
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Dance, Choreography and PerformanceUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD2016
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors in Theatre ArtsFederal University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria2007
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