NY Premiere
Nov 28—Dec 2, 2023
Learn more: https://bit.ly/44XOwlg

Powerhouse performer, writer, and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili and director Peter Born offer an inside look at the making of their new dancetheater work. They share the personal and political histories and collaborative processes that led to a new speculative mythology in adaku, part 1: the road opens.

adaku, part 1: the road opens has its New York premiere at BAM, following earlier iterations at MoMA, ICA/Boston, and REDCAT.

Created by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born

Part of Next Wave 2023

Costume codesign by James Gibbel
Sound codesign by Will Johnson
Musical direction by Deah Love Harriott
Dramaturgy by Katherine Profeta

Commissioned by BAM for the 2023 Next Wave and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Developed in residency at The Museum of Modern Art as part of the Hyundai Card Performance Series, 2023 Summer Stages Dance @ ICA/Boston, Brown Arts Institute at Brown University and the Mercury Store. Additional support was provided by New England Foundation for the Arts.

MoMA video footage produced by Oresti Tsonopoulos