MAJOR | by Ogemdi Ude

Six dancers take the stage in MAJOR to explore the power, memory, and physicality of majorette dance, a form that originated in the American South within Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 1960s. In this dance-theater work, six Black femmes revisit the rhythms of their girlhood and rediscover the bodies they shaped through choreography, spoken word, and a music score by Lambkin blending Southern rap, horns, drumlines, and melodic R&B and soul.

The work is created by Brooklyn-based dance and interdisciplinary artist Ogemdi Ude, whose performances explore Black femme legacies, grief, and futures, grief, and memory through movement and voice. Ude describes MAJOR as “a nuanced love letter to the folks who taught the team how to be proudly Black and proudly femme.”