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...night started on a humorous note, as Expressions director Gbenga T. Okusanya ’05 walked onto the lecture hall floor to welcome the audience when a rabble-rousing group of City-Steppers stood up and shouted “O-K Gben-ga” and took off their jackets to reveal t-shirts proclaiming “I Gbenga” with his ID card picture in the center of the heart. After Okusanya controlled his guffawing, the show was underway with a pseudo-lesbian dance to Britney’s “Toxic...
...Okusanya leans back in his desk chair in his garret-like single, littered with cast-off clothes and books, explaining how Harvard’s environment was the key to unlocking his love of hip-hop dance. Being at Harvard “definitely, definitely encouraged my creativity,” he says, citing the broad range of talent as part of his inspiration. “There is a certain motivational drive that people have here that forces them to be really good, if not great, at whatever they have to do—it’s just...
...about to choreograph something once I hear the music. If a great beat hits my ears, I can see the dance...I can imagine how bodies fit to each element of the music. The positive competition of the dance world at Harvard also keeps Okusanya “challenged to do a little more.” He calls the atmosphere “competitive good-everyone’s always on the eye out to see how far people are pushing...
...Okusanya feels more than just adulation for Harvard’s artistic community. “The dance space issue,” he says somberly, “needs to be dealt with.” He complains that limitations on studio space hinder undergraduate creativity by forcing groups to cut back on the numbers of dancers they can accommodate. “The dance space issue creates a situation in which not everybody or anybody who wants to gets an opportunity to be expressive. It’s just a total logistical nightmare...
...While Okusanya has made dance a priority throughout his undergraduate career, he will not be choreographing this semester. A higher calling—MCATS, to be exact—takes precedent this term. But he doesn’t seem to regret his decision to trade in his dancing shoes for a stethoscope: “Dancing came along later for me. Medicine is definitely for me, and you can only be a dancer for so long because bodies can only sustain so much...