Kingsley UGŪM Ibeneche is a Nigerian‑American choreographer, dancer, 
musician, and writer. Raised in Camden, New Jersey, by parents from 
Nigeria, Kingsley’s practice is rooted in the sounds and movement of his 
Nigerian heritage while drawing on training in ballet, house, and 
contemporary dance. 

Across stage, screen, and studio, Kingsley’s work bridges concert dance, 
commercial performance, and experimental theater. He trained for his BFA 
in Ballet Performance at the University of the Arts. He has worked as a 
company dancer for notable companies, including Pilobolus Dance 
Theater, Philadanco 2, and Just Sole Street Theater. He has toured 
internationally for several years and has performed in high‑profile media 
and live contexts with artists and platforms such as Alicia Keys, Travis 
Scott, Halsey, James Blake, GAP, Nike, and Amazon Prime: Fallout. His 
education continued at Bennington College, where he received the Ulysses 
Dove Scholarship and an MFA in Dance Pedagogy and Performance 
Studies. 

As a musician, producer, and DJ, Kingsley composes and performs music 
that intertwines soul, highlife, electronic production, and live 
instrumentation; his releases (including his orginal work Udo and Realms 
EP) Kingsley’s music and performance projects have been covered by 
outlets like AFROPUNK, NPR, Okayplayer and featured in radio and live 
DJ sets, and his recent teaching and public performance work has 
foregrounded the relationship between movement, sound, and diasporic 
storytelling. 

Outside formal classrooms, Kingsley DJs internationally (guest sets for 
Rinse France, The Lot Radio, Djoon, Piñata Radio, and more) and designs 
cross‑disciplinary projects that foreground sound as method and memory 
as material. Whether in rehearsal, on record, or behind the decks, his 
practice is rooted in Nigerian lineage and in a commitment to using 
movement and music to trace, amplify, and connect African and diasporic 
histories.