Biography

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko is an author, arts manager, poet, choreographer, performance artist, curator, experimental vocalist, and comedian.  He is the Founder and Executive Producing Director at KOSOKO PERFORMANCE GROUP.  His work has received grant support from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through Dance Advance, The Joyce Theater Foundation, and The Philadelphia Cultural Fund. Performance Venues include: Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, Dance Theater Workshop, Bennington College, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, the CEC Meeting House Theater, Painted Bride Arts Center, among others. Creative consultant and/or performer credits include: Terry Creach, Lisa Kraus, Kate Watson-Wallace/anonymous bodies, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Keely Garfield Dance, Miguel Gutierrez and The Powerful People, Headlong Dance Theater, Leah Stein Dance Company, Emergent Improvisation Ensemble, and, Faustin Linyekula and Les Studios Kabako (The Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa).   Publications include: The American Poetry Review, The Dunes Review, The Interlochen Review, The Broad Street Review, Silo Literary and Visual Arts Magazine.  In 2009, Kosoko published the chapbook, Animal in Cyberspace.

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