Why Dance Matters

S10 E3: Vicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu


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Vicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu is an inventive choreographer, an Olympic movement director and a very positive lifecoach. Her dance company Uchenna promises to Empower, Entertain & Educate, while she wants everyone she engages with to Think Fierce, Be Fabulous & Live Free Spirited. Sadler’s Wells in London are channelling that positive spirit, asking her to create Our Mighty Groove, a show that will open their brand new theatre in London’s Olympic Park – just minutes from where Vicki helped create the legendary opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. Vicki tells us about taking her own advice, and

how she first got her groove on.


Vicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu is the founder and joint CEO of Uchenna, an international touring dance company. Her work in theatre as a choreographer and movement director includes productions at Leeds Playhouse, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, National Youth Theatre, Royal Court and more. She created Uchenna’s four touring shows: Our Mighty Groove, The Head Wrap Diaries, Hansel and Gretel and The Head Wrap Diaries – Fierce and Free. Internationally, she has worked as a mass movement choreographer for Olympic and Paralympic Ceremonies, including London 2012. She is Director of Empowerment at People Make It Work and is the Self-First Instigator, empowering creative women to kickstart the habit of putting themselves first.


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https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/vicki-igbokwe-ozoagus-our-mighty-groove/

https://www.vickiigbokwe.co.uk/

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