2025 Princess Grace Honoraria
Nominated by: Danspace Project
Ogemdi Ude is a dance and interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Her performances focus on Black femme legacies and futures, grief, and memory. Her work has been presented at The Kitchen, Gibney, Harlem Stage, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center, Recess Art, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Center for Performance Research. She is a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, 2024-2025 Leslie-Lohman Artist Fellow, a Live Feed Residency Artist at New York Live Arts, and a 2024/2025 BAX Artist-in-Residence. In January 2022 she appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine for their annual “25 to Watch” issue. Most recently, she published a book Watch Me in a collection edited by Thomas DeFrantz and Annie-B Parson: Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study published by Dancing Foxes Press and Wesleyan University Press.
