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Okwui Okpokwasili is a performer, choreographer, and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces that draw viewers into the interior lives of women of....
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Okwui Okpokwasili
American artist and actress (born 1972)
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Okwui Okpokwasili (;[1] born August 6, 1972) is a Nigerian-American artist, actress, performer, choreographer, and writer.
Her multidisciplinary performances draw upon her training in theatre, and she describes her work as at "the intersection of theatre, dance, and the installation." Okpokwasili is known for starring as Vertigo in the television miniseries Agatha All Along.
Several of her works relate to historical events in Nigeria. She is especially interested in cultural and historical memory and how the Western imagination perceives African bodies.
Early life
Okpokwasili was born August 6, 1972 in The Bronx, New York, daughter of Igbo Nigerians immigrants who moved to the United St
