Philadiction in the Press

Serendipitous and Sustainable: Long Live anonymous bodies

Independent artists Kate Watson-Wallace and Jaamil Kosoko are known for distinct, yet equally boundary-pushing contributions to dance in Philadelphia. After several years of “artistic dating” they’re committing to a new working model that will allow them to keep making art on their own terms, and with each other’s support. Read more »

Jaamil Kosoko makes The Broad Street Review Critic’s Choice: Dance highlights of 2011 by Merilyn Jackson

Critic’s choice: Dance highlights of 2011
...I remember some of Kosoko’s performance, especially that it gave me my first insight into the stormy darkness of his early life, his mother’s addiction and all that it wrought. Kosoko brought his audience to tears of empathy one moment and made us laugh bitterly in the next. He’s a brilliant young performer and poet who fearlessly uses what he knows. Click here for the full commentary. Read more »

Observatory Reading in NYC, Notes on an Urban Kill-Floor: Poems for Detroit

Notes on an Urban Kill-Floor: Poems for Detroit
An open mic and reading with poet Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Date: Sunday, May 22nd
Time: 7 PM
Admission: $5
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A peek inside Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s head, 2010 Interview with Joyce SoHo's J. Douglass

The poem Spirits of the Dead was the first piece of written research I’d done forAn Expectation of Violence. It investigates a lineage of women who haunt me. And not in the way you may think. There are many ways to be haunted by the dead. Some ways manifest creatively. Read more »

Jaamil Kosoko is "inimitable" as co-host of the 2011 Philadelphia Rocky Awards

The 2011 Rocky Awards

By Merilyn Jackson
This year's Rocky Awards, presented Monday night by the previous year’s winners to other dancers of their choice, moved at such a clip they lasted a mere hour and a quarter. Read more »

Philadiction Press Kit

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Phillyist Goes to the Festival: 8: Daniele Strawmyre and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

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8: eight choreographers / eight new works

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Jaamil Kosoko & Mother USA want you

When Jaamil Olawale Kosoko was a kid growing up in Detroit, he broke into the ice cream truck that his father, a Nigerian immigrant, drove for a living, and gave out free frozen treats to anyone who wanted them. "I didn't have any friends," he says. Read more »

A New High for New Edge Mix Dance Artists by Merilyn Jackson

Next, Jaamil Kosoko and Kosoko Performance Group (which includes Murphy) showed an excerpt from An Expectation of Violence in which Kristen Shahverdian and Zachary Svoboda join Kosoko and Murphy, speaking in tongues and text from his poetry. Svoboda and Murphy fight at hyperventilating speeds while Kosoko and the very pregnant Shahverdian coo love groans at each other. Part 2 will premiere at next fall's Live Arts Festival. Read more »

Dancers Compelled by Words of a Poet - NY Times

The Kosoko Performance Group, a Philadelphia interdisciplinary ensemble under the artistic direction of Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, appeared at the Joyce SoHo on Thursday evening and delivered a long-winded program that touched on dance-theater, political dance and even a bit of pure dance...
Click to read Gia Kourles mediocre review of our season at Joyce SoHo.