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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)

Rooted in Motion: The Ten Poem Project (Auntie)1

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A short dance film by Sinclair Emoghene.

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10 awards
11 festivals
Canada Shorts, Canadian & International Short Film Festival, Grand Prize, 2025Canada Shorts, Best Experimental, 2025Canada Shorts, Best Director, 2025Canada Shorts, Best Cinematography, 2025Canada Shorts, Best Score, 2025Canada Shorts, Best International Short, 2025Canada Shorts, Documentary, 2025Paris Short Film Festival, Best LGBT Short Film, 2026Stockholm City Film Festival, Best Experimental Film, 2026LGBTQ+ Toronto & Los Angeles Film Festival, Best Experimental Short, 2026
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A short dance film by Sinclair Emoghene.

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Mé Duniya 20251

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Experimental Collaboration and Live Performance 20241

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Experimental Collaboration and Live PerformanceVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond2

A collaboration with Stephen Vitiello, made at Virginia Commonwealth University in the spring of 2024.

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Credits
  • 1Year2024
  • 2Direction and choreographySinclair Emoghene
  • 3Original sound designStephen Vitiello
  • 4Director of photographyEvan McNair
  • 5Dancers and tumblersAddison Harksen and Robert Parietti
  • 6Location managerAlexandre Jones
  • 7SupportSchool of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University
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A collaboration with Stephen Vitiello, made at Virginia Commonwealth University in the spring of 2024.

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The Sensorium Project1

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Facets of Esoterics 20201

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Kaleidoscope of Tuts 20201

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Kaleidoscope of TutsThe Kennedy Center, Washington2

Kaleidoscope of Tuts, Parts One and Two, commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Millennium Stage and presented with VCU Dance Now, February 2020.

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  • 1Year2020
  • 2PerformersSinclair Dance Company, VCUArts Dance + Choreography and other independent artists in Washington D.C.
  • 3MusicBrian Bryson
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Togethr A Part 20181

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Togethr A PartSandy Springs Museum, Silver Spring, Maryland2

Togethr A Part is an exploratory process work.

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  • 1Year2018
  • 2WhereSandy Springs Museum, Silver Spring, Maryland
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Exploration A 20141

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Exploration B 20151

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Exploration BDance theater, University of Maryland2

A movement exploratory video.

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Love + Hate = Bad Names 20161

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Love + Hate = Bad NamesThe Clarice, University of Maryland2

An experiment that explores the intensity of space, sound and movement, in a site-imposed work, in this work, I use the available structure of a standard theater audience seating area as a set design and backdrop.

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  • 1Year2016
  • 2CommissionNEXTNOW Festival, The Clarice, University of Maryland
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ROAMS, Rooted On A Moving Spot 20161

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ROAMS explores the notion of movement versus static to explain the intricacies of the phenomenon “confinement.”

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Nyam Chiem 20151

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This paper is a documentation of a practice-based dance work of the creative process, research and performance presentation of the piece “Nyam chiem.”

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This paper is a documentation of a practice-based dance work of the creative process, research and performance presentation of the piece “Nyam chiem.”

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Other work process with international companies

NAFEST Rehearsal1

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