Hussein Smko Performance

On April 25th, 2019, dancer and choreographer Hussein Smko delivered a solo response in movement to the exhibition, Without a Solitary Object of Vision. Broken into a series of short 'conversations' with the artworks, Smko's choreographed interventions and improvisations explored the multiple textures, forms, and materialities of the site-specific works created by Samuelle Green and Amina Ahmed.

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Hussein Smko is a self-trained dancer and choreographer of Arab/Kurdish roots who was spotted by the Battery Dance Company through social media in 2014. Trained via Skype, Smko emigrated to the United States in 2016 and began his residency with Battery Dance as the first recipient of the Adel Euro Campaign for Dancers Seeking Refuge (2017). Since then he has performed at the Battery Dance Festival and as part of the company's residency with the Fort Wayne Dance Collective. He has taught for Battery Dance in New York City public schools, at the New York Public Library, and at USC in Los Angeles, for a Spoken Word and Dance program with Iraqi journalist Riyadh Mohammed.

Image: Bernadeta Serafin