Major
Major
Premiering November 2025 at new York Live Arts
Major is a dance theater project exploring the history and physicality of majorette dance, with a team of Southern Black femmes embodying the movement of their girlhood to answer the questions of their present. Major preserves, transforms, and continues majorette legacy by integrating majorette movement, documentary theater, a live marching band, and an online interview-based archive. Through investigations of physical memory, sexuality, and sensuality, Major preserves and proliferates the creative practices and stories of the folks who taught the team how to be proudly Black and proudly femme.
Cast and Creative Team
Ogemdi Ude - Director/Choreographer
Selah Hampton - Dance Captain/Performer
Chanel Stone - Performer
Jailyn Phillips-Wiley - Performer
Junyla Silmon - Performer
Kayla Farrish - Performer
song tucker - Performer
Lamb - Composer
Myssi Robinson - Archivist
Sara Da Silva - Producer
For more information and presenting/touring inquiries, contact Sara da Silva.
Major is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation; with funds from Mertz Gilmore Foundation, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council; a grant from the MAP Fund.