//shrouded\\
A living poetic sculpture casting the body as an archive of memory, resistance, and transformation.
NYC Premiere @ Lincoln Center, April 23–24, 2026
//shrouded\\ is an immersive dance performance and living sculpture that explores the body as an archive of memory, resistance, and transformation. Rooted in Black queer temporalities, the work delves into the embodied legacies of displacement and erasure, asking what it means to live with a history of imposed invisibility.
Encased in flowing brown silks, performers move through states of concealment and revelation, enacting a dynamic poetics of opacity and emergence. These veils of fabric become thresholds between seen and unseen worlds, invoking the spectral and the sacred. Through slow, durational movement, //shrouded\\ foregrounds the tensions between visibility and survival, mourning and becoming.
Part ceremony, part living archive, the work gathers both the living and the departed into a shared field of remembrance. It invites audiences to witness a communal act of remembering and reimagining
Can a multi-generational inheritance of disinvestment be alchemized into a coexistent, abundant future?
Creative Direction: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
Presented by: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NYC
Additional Support: NEFA National Dance Project, Bogliasco Center (Italy), Shadowcliff Artist Residency, The New School, Cannonball Festival, and friends of Kosoko Performance Studio.
Photo: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, courtesy of the artist
About Jaamil
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American choreographer, author, performance artist, and curator. Their interdisciplinary practice merges performance, video, sculpture, and poetry, exploring queer Black theory, emergence, and rest-care strategies for BIPOC+ liberation and reparation.
Jaamil is the author of Black Body Amnesia: Poems and Other Speech Acts and two chapbooks, Animal in Cyberspace and Notes of an Urban Kill-Floor. Their works—including The (chrysalis) Archives, Black Body Amnesia, Chameleon, Séancers, and the Bessie-nominated #negrophobia—have toured internationally to venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, EMPAC, ICA at VCU, Montréal Arts Interculturels, New York Live Arts, and the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Kosoko’s honors include the Doris Duke Performing Arts Technology Lab Grant, NEFA National Dance Project, LMCC’s Extended Life Residency, a Pew Fellowship, and the Princeton Arts Fellowship, among others.
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