Every performance is a ceremony.

 

SONG · COMPOSITION · MOVEMENT · CHOREOGRAPHY · WRITING

 

My name is OTION (OCEAN), I'm a performance artist based in Amsterdam. Every discipline, every character, every version of the Master of Ceremonies that i bring into the room serves one purpose: bringing you into the space, the state, the vibration the present moment asks for. I work where the ancestral and the futuristic meet. My references run wide: the metaphysical, my Afro-Surinamese roots, hip hop, R&B, soul, jazz, musical theatre and the experimental. My ancestors taught me what this practice really is: medicine.

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NOMINATED FOR

Theo d’Or · Amsterdam Art Award · VSCD Ontwerpersprijs