Ogden After Hours
IYA-ORISHA: presented by Dow-Dance Company featuring Binge Dance Festival International Artist in Residence Arouna Guindo
Thursday, July 20, 2023
6 P.M. - 8 P.M.
Ogden After Hours is a monthly event that takes place on every third Thursday of the month and features a diverse lineup of programs reflecting and celebrating the diversity of Southern art and culture.
IYA-ORISHA: presented by Dow-Dance Company featuring Binge Dance Festival International Artist in Residence Arouna Guindo
IYA-ORISHA is the fictional journey through the tales of West African divinities. The performance is composed of a Hip-Hop cypher, a sculpture and painting installation, WHAT SLITHERS BENEATH THE BAOBAB TREE by Dow-Dance Company, and the solo ANANSI by Binge Dance Festival Artist in Residence, Arouna Guindo. This performance is a journey inspired by West African spirituality told in an Afrofuturism lens.
Binge Dance Festival is a multicultural program of Dow-Dance Company in partnership with the New Orleans Cultural and Tourism Fund designed to provide opportunities to BIPOC choreographers in New Orleans to create and present their work through local, national, and international collaboration between artists in New Orleans and Benin Republic.