MISSION
Kosoko Performance Studio (KPS) is committed to advancing and amplifying queer Black histories through socially engaged performance, healing-centered education, innovative new media practices, and creative facilitation. As the producing team for artist, poet, educator, and curator jaamil olawale kosoko, (KPS) serves as a hub for artistic experimentation and cultural inquiry, weaving together personal narratives, ancestral memory, and radical imagination.
Our mission is to push boundaries, challenge societal norms, and contribute to cultural evolution by creating transformative and thought-provoking artistic experiences. We approach performance as a vessel for social dialogue, spiritual reflection, and collective healing, utilizing multidisciplinary practices to center marginalized voices and untold stories.
Each project engages space as a site of possibility and transformation—whether it is the stage, a public venue, a digital realm, or the intangible spaces of memory and imagination. By reimagining how bodies, identities, and histories inhabit space, (KPS) fosters dynamic environments where audiences and performers can explore the interplay between self, community, and the broader cultural landscape.
VISION
Kosoko Performance Studio (KPS) seeks to conjure and craft enduring modes of freedom, healing, and care when/where/whoever possible. The studio envisions and creates speculative futures where embodied visual performance technologies are reimagined through the intersection of curatorial, poetic, and improvisational choreological practices and innovative new media experimentation.
Creative Values
Kosoko Performance Studio’s practice exists in an ongoing dialogue with history, examining its imprint on the contemporary moment. Collaborating with a diverse team of creative partners, the studio embraces questions, trauma, and joy as generative forces, crafting performance environments that balance complexity, discomfort, and vulnerability while foregrounding care and healing.
Deeply rooted in Black and queer theoretical, literary, and spiritual lineages, (KPS) intertwines these frameworks with biographical and embodied knowledge fueling a commitment to experimentation while blurring the lines between theatricality, reality, and our collective erotic connection to digital devices.
Through this work, the studio centers radical imagination, creating spaces where historical resonance meets present urgency and future possibility—spaces that are as transformative as they are provocative, as restorative as they are revolutionary.
