Eseohe Arhebamen is a poet, dancer/choreographer, mixed-media artist, musician and performance artist. Born in Nigeria, raised in Detroit City and currently residing in New York, Eseohe’s artworks reflect a diversity of cultures and the interrelations of media. Eseohe Arhebamen’s works are heavily influenced by traditional Afrikan Theater and her study of Butoh. Since immigrating to the United States, Eseohe has won many awards for her artworks including the University of Michigan Hopwood Award for Poetry, the Jeffrey Weisberg Memorial Prize for Poetry, a Lawrence Tech Poetry Award, the Arthur Miller Award for Fiction, an InsideOut Literary/Arts Project Writing Residency funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, an Environmental Justice Initiative First Place Award for a poetry slam competition and the College Unions Poetry Slam National Champion First Place Prize. She has performed or shown work internationally in Africa, North America, Europe and Asia.

EDOHEART exists for the purpose of furthering collaborations and cultural exchanges in all forms of media that serve to deepen comprehension of perception and experience. Edoheart is the multicultural, multilingual Africa I carry with me in my travels; a place I share with my collaborators and audiences. The language of Edoheart is transcultural, metaphysical and multimedia. Edoheart rewrites the history of Africa through rediscovery, retrieval and re-incorporation of lost African creations and identities. Edoheart is Eseohe Arhebamen.

praise for eseohe arhebamen / edoheart

“Arhebamen’s performances are very powerful ritual, which goes far beyond the modern feminine materiality bimboculture and represents more… creative power.”
- Siram, SIRP (May 08, 2009)

“Flexible body and a strong gesture… a professional who was worth the attention… bright background music, her gestures and expressions of joy, full of light… Suddenly, the sound of thunder and the rain continues, meditative folk music of the drums changed to Africa, she also moves…”

- (musical1501@naver.com) , KoPAS (Sep 26, 2008)

more information on this site

+++ Artist’s Statement & Personal Statement, Bio, CV

+++PRESS RELEASE: Eseohe Arhebamen develops Butoh-vocal Theatre

+++Edoheart on Wikipedia

+++Vocal Styles: An Interview With Performance Artist Edoheart