About: Nkeiruka Oruche

Nkeiruka Oruche (https://www.nkeirukaoruche.com/) is a cultural organizer, multimedia creative of Igbo descent, who specializes in Afro-Urban culture and its intersections with social issues. She is a co-founder of BoomShake, a social justice and music education organization, and founder and executive artistic director of Afro Urban Society, an incubator and presenter of Pan Afro-Urban arts, culture, and social discourse. In 2022, she created and directed ‘Mixtape of the Dead & Gone #1’- Ahamefula’, a shit-just-got-real dance-theater piece about life, death, and what the fuck comes next. She is a 2022 Dance/USA Artist Fellow, a Kikwetu Honors Awardee, a 2018 NYFA Immigrant Artist Fellow, YBCA 100 Honoree, and recipient of awards from Creative Work Fund, MAP Fund, New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, California Arts Council, among others.

Articles by Nkeiruka Oruche:

• Welcome Apr 24, 2023
• Keepers of Home: Muisi-kongo & Kiazi Malonga Apr 24, 2023
• Lovers of Home: The Diouf Family Apr 24, 2023
• Casting Call for a New “African” Dance Reality Show Jun 24, 2021