Take a Dance Break with IN YOUR ARMS' Adesola Osakalumi

The Old Globe opens its 2015-2016 Season tomorrow with IN YOUR ARMS, a World Premiere dance-theatre musical featuring direction and choreography by Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, Godspell, Lincoln Center Theater's The King and I and South Pacific) and original music by Tony Award winner Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Once on This Island; two-time Oscar nominee for Anastasia). IN YOUR ARMS features 10 dance vignettes written by an incredible and diverse lineup of theatre powerhouses, including Douglas Carter Beane, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Lynn Nottage, and Alfred Uhry.

The focus of IN YOUR ARMS in on telling a story through dance, and the show features an incredible line-up of performers who do just that. BroadwayWorld is celebrating the amazing work of these dancers by bringing you a countdown of our favorite dance performances of some of the stars. Today, we're featuring Adesola Osakalumi.

Osakalumi was the lead in both the Broadway and international tours of Fela! as well as Fela! The Concert, and he also appeared in the Broadway revival of Equus. His New York and regional credits include In Your Arms (New York Stage and Film/Powerhouse Theater), Ngwino Ubeho (Sundance Institute Theatre Lab), Eyewitness Blues (New York Theatre Workshop), and Jam on the Groove (Minetta Lane Theatre, Drama Desk Award nomination). His film appearances include Sex and the City 2, Crazy Beats Strong Every Time, The Accidental Husband, Across the Universe,Enchanted, and Idlewild. As a choreographer his work includes the films School of Rock and Marci X;Broadway Bares; and commercial work for ESPN, Old Navy, PBS Kids, Halifax Bank, and Advil. Osakalumi is a New York native and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Bessie Award.

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IN YOUR ARMS is a sweeping and romantic evening of theatre created by an unprecedented constellation of America's preeminent writers for the stage. Ten dance vignettes tell wordless stories of love, yearning, and romance, and constitute a magical evening of movement and music performed by a cast of 22 talented dancers. Each vignette takes place in a different place and time, and the 10 dances range from duets to large ensemble numbers. Thrilling styles of dance from classical ballet to swing, tap to tango, rock 'n' roll to Charleston, modern to jazz are celebrated with verve and nuance. The emotional canvas of the stories is vast: some are funny, some are sad, and some are enchanting, but all delve deep into that most essential of human emotions: love.