Press
KQED Article on mouth//full
December 2019
An article by Pendarvis Harshaw of KQED with a review of mouth//full: a genre-breaking production about Black Diasporic faith created by OYSTERKNIFE at CounterPulse.
Artist Highlight with Crowded Fire
December 2020
A conversation between Chibueze and Nailah Harper-Malveaux about their respective creative practices in the Bay Area. Facilitated by Leigh Rondon-Davis for Crowded Fire Theater’s weekly Twitch channel and their Artist Highlight series.
Time of Change
September 2021
A co-production with Joe Goode Performance Group
Co-directed by OYSTERKNIFE [Gabriele Christian & Chibueze Crouch], Melecio Estrella, and Joe Goode.
A site-specific dance-theater performance about the many facets of the 60s & 70s counterculture movement, as it originated in the Haight-Ashbury. Each director of this roving multimedia production explored a different aspect of the era, with OYSTERKNIFE focusing on the lost histories of this predominantly Black neighborhood before its gentrification by the hippies. The show took place September 1-19 in the streets of the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, CA.
Learn more about the show here.
California Arts Council: Individual Artist Fellowship
October 2021
Chibueze was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in the Established Artist category from the California Arts Council. This state-wide fellowship is intended to “recognize, uplift, and celebrate the excellence of California artists,” especially for creatives whose work features “unique artistic vision, ongoing commitment to creative practice, and engagement with and impact on the larger cultural ecosystem.”
Bandaloop 30th Anniversary Show: LOOM:FIELD
April 15-16, 2022
An announcement of the 30th anniversary show of Bandaloop, a vertical dance company based in Oakland. Chibueze performed as a featured vocalist, poet, and aerial dancer in this local debut of LOOM:FIELD, a multimedia show about climate change and fast fashion.
m|ou|f premieres at UC Santa Cruz
May 28, 2022
World premiere of m|ou|f - the final act in a triptych created by OYSTERKNIFE. The piece closed Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism - an international festival at UC Santa Cruz curated by Gerald Casel and Aaron Samuel Mulenga.
Review of m|ou|f for ODC’s State of Play
June 4, 2022
A review by the SF Chronicle’s Rachel Adams of ODC’s State of Play dance Festival, curated by Amara Tabor-Smith and Charles Slender-White. This article noted the “charismatic” excerpt of OYSTERKNIFE’s m|ou|f presented in the Festival.
Bandaloop: US & International Tours
April to October 2022
Chibueze performed as a featured singer, writer, and vertical dancer with Bandaloop on their US and international tours. She toured in Hungary (MUPA Budapest, April-May 2022), Norfolk, Virginia (Virginia Arts Festival, May 2022), Santa Cruz, California (CommonGround Festival at the Museum of Art & History), Denver, Colorado (University of Denver) and debuted & co-directed an original commission in New Haven, CT (Yale University at the Schwarzman Center) with Melecio Estrella.
Bandaloop in Santiago, Chile
January 2023
Chibueze performed with Bandaloop in Santiago, Chile as part of a US Embassy-sponsored tour at Festival Teatro a Mil 2023. In this new show, titled BIRDSTRIKE, she sang, performed original poetry, and danced on the Ministry of Justice Building, exploring how environmental destruction disrupts bird migration patterns. Chibueze also sang with the award-winning Chilean band, Plumas, alongside featured vocalist Destani Wolf.
Read a news article about the show here.
See photos of the performance here.
Learn more about Santiago a Mil International Theatre Festival here.