About Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde
Bio
Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde is Nigerian – Black ever evolving freelance creating artists from Teaneck, New Jersey. Since Rutgers University (Jersey Strong) he has worked with Colleen Thomas, Steffanie Batten Bland, The Trisha Brown Dance Company, Kyle Marshall, Miriam Gabriel + Carlo Antonio Villanueva and more. He has presented work for three years now. In 2019 he was Dance on the Lawn’s 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 2020 and was nominated for “Outstanding Performer” by the Bessie Committee. He is currently reading “The Famished Road” by Ben Okri as Nigerian Sci-Fi/historic fiction is one of his favorite genres. He relates strongly to the quote “performance is where we meet the cosmos” by Wole Soyinka. He attunes more the use of performance in every day living. He is rediscovering the multiplicity of his art making as it relates to the responsibilities and realities of his human condition. He is finding deeper value in collaborative creation and collaborative coexistence. He is using the pronoun he and acknowledges the spectrum, flow and unknown in his gender “expression.” He is excited, a bit weary, and open to all the new and re-newing aspects of his journey at University of Illinois. “This is a big move y’all. What’s community giving?”