Arts & Culture
Brooklyn Dancer Named MacArthur Genius – Meet Okwui Okpokwasili
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – MacArthur recipient Okwui Okpokwasili took ballet classes as a child but her performance style is rooted in her Nigerian heritage, interest in Japanese dance and the desire to highlight an underrepresented narrative in the arts — “the complexity of the black woman.” “I guess I’m always looking for the