jaamil olawale kosoko

jaamil olawale kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American choreographer, author, performance artist, and curator. jaamil’s interdisciplinary practice merges performance, video, sculpture, and poetry, exploring queer Black theory, emergence, and critical rest-care strategies. jaamil’s works — including The (chrysalis) Archives, Black Body Amnesia, Chameleon, Séancers, and Bessie Award-nominated #negrophobia — have toured to venues including EMPAC, Fusebox Festival, The Guggenheim Museum, ICA at VCU, Montréal Arts Interculturels, Museum of Arts and Design, New York Live Arts, and Wexner Center for the Arts, among others.

Shrouded//the End of Dances is an immersive performance installation and living sculpture that invites audiences to engage physically by moving through the space and mirroring the actions of the three metamorphosing performers onstage. In this work, the corporeal and the ephemeral coalesce as bodies draped in rich brown silks form a shifting veil, concealing and revealing complex new modes of witnessing the living archive of the body. Scattered across the space, these sculptures act as conduits for hidden bodily truths, prompting viewers to reflect on how their own physical forms archive emotions, memories, and the intricacies of human existence. Through choreography, materiality, and audience participation, the work expands traditional notions of time, presence, performance, and embodied storytelling.