Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde is Nigerian - Black freelance performing artist living in New Jersey. Since graduating from Rutgers University he has worked with Colleen Thomas, Bill Young, Netta Yerushalmy, Stefanie Batten Bland, Susan Marshall, Kayla Farrish, Douglas Dunn, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (broadway lab), The Trisha Brown Dance Company, Kyle Marshall and Miriam Gabriel + Carlo Antonio Villanueva. He has presented work at Smush Gallery, Morristown Museum, Stuffed Arts and Monday’s At Judson, Participant Inc Gallery and more. In 2019 he was Dance on the Lawn's fifth Emerging Choreographer and a Chez Bushwick resident. Last year he was a New Jersey State Council On The Arts Fellow, named top 25 to watch in Dance Magazine for 2020 and nominated for “Outstanding Performer” by the Bessie Committee.

performance: Saturday Feb 26 @ 8pm ONLINE

MENTOR: Fana Fraser

WRITER: Benedict Nguyen


photo: Camilo Godoy