Visiting Artist Colloquium: Omari ‘Motion’ Carter

Omari ‘Motion’ Carter is a screendance practitioner, body-percussionist, and lecturer based in London (UK) and, for the past decade, has been choreographing, teaching and performing for music videos, film, television and theatre. Omari’s practice is influenced by hip hop dance culture, screendance, and body-percussion. This combines with his ten years of multi-faceted, dance-filmmaking experience to result in the purposeful creation, presentation, and education of narratives told through dance and the camera.

As a director, videographer, and editor, Omari has created digital-dance and documentary content for Breakin’ Convention Hip Hop Theatre Festival (UK), Parkinson’s UK, Dance Woking, DanceXchange, South East Dance, Akademi (UK), Calmer UK, National Centre for Circus Arts, Jason Mabana Dance, Pagrav Dance Company, and Mouvement Perpétuel (Canada). As an independent choreographer and dancer, Omari has created works for Google, Britain’s Got Talent, Weetabix, Stanton Warriors, Greenpeace UK, Diabetes UK, and ADAD (Association of Dance from the African Diaspora).​

A graduate from the world’s first master’s degree in Screendance at London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS), Omari went on to become associate lecturer in Screendance at the University of East London, University of Lincoln, and LCDS. Omari was co-curator of Akademi Dance-Film Festival 2021, Digital Creative for Pavilion Dance South West and features twice in Vol. 12 of The International Journal of Screendance. Omari is currently on the event programming team for San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (USA), a committee member of PoP [Performances of the Popular] Moves UK, and dance lecturer at LCDS.