On Empowering, Educating and Entertaining Through Dance
The Creative Practice podcast features conversations with people working in the creative industries, discussing what they do, why they do it and how they got there.
In this episode, host Neil Mackinnon talks to Vicki Igbokwe, Creative Director and Choreographer of Uchenna Dance. Vicki works to empower, entertain and educate through dance theatre production experiences, coaching, dance based empowerment workshops and teaching in further and higher education.
The daughter of a Barrister and Labour Councillor Vicki was raised in a Nigerian household where dance was part of her upbringing. Aged 14 Vicki became a carer for her mother and younger sisters and dance became her escape. Over the following years Vicki turned this escape into a career which has so far spanned becoming a sponsored dance athlete with Nike, setting up and growing Uchenna dance, choreographing for the opening and closing ceremonies of two Olympic games and creating commissions for several prestigious dance organisations in the UK.
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