Onye P. Ozuzu

Onye Ozuzu is a dancer, choreographer, performing artist, educator, and researcher whose work operates at the intersections of ritual, club, concert, and experimental movement practices. She has presented work nationally and internationally since 1997. From 2018–2024, Ozuzu served as Dean of the University of Florida College of the Arts; she now centers her practice on choreography, performance, and embodied research.

Her work emerges from decades of immersion in contemporary dance alongside deep study and lived experience in West African dance and drumming, martial arts, yoga, Salsa, and House dance. Grounded in improvisation, her practice is shaped by intentional intersections between forms and by the body’s capacity to carry culture, memory, and transformation.

Ozuzu’s recent work, Space Carcasses, premiered in summer 2025 at the Bates Dance Festival. Created with an international team of collaborators, the project investigates architecture, atmosphere, and African diaspora histories through site-responsive performance and 3D audio-visual technologies. The work is supported by the National Performance Network and the New England Foundation for the Arts, with additional co-commissions from Q Dance Center (Lagos, Nigeria) and Hope Mohr Dance’s Bridge Project (San Francisco, CA).

At the University of Florida, Ozuzu teaches composition, improvisation, contemporary dance practices, and teaching methods. In 2026, she is an invited keynote presenter at Collegium for African Diaspora Dance at Duke University, an adjudicator for the American College Dance Association in Baja, California, and a workshop presenter at Jacob’s Pillow scheduled for August 2026.