HISTORY, MISSION, VISION, EVOLUTIONINSPIRIT, a dance company, was founded in 2004 by Christal Brown with the sole purpose of bringing together and showcasing emerging female artists and choreographers. Since its inception, INSPIRIT has grown to be an incubation tank, providing training in executive, artistic, and educational skills. In addition to having performed in various venues across the United States, the company has also been in residence at several colleges and universities while also creating strong ties with various communities of young women nationwide through Project: BECOMING.
INSPIRIT's vision includes providing a forum for collaboration among emerging artists and choreographers, promoting public appreciation of contemporary dance works, educating the general public about dance by sponsoring affordable and accessible performances in community based venues, encouraging interest in dance among youth through outreach and within public schools, developing the technical abilities and overall talent of young and unrecognized artist of all genres, races, and genders. INSPIRIT has grown from a performance ensemble to a methodology for collaboration, creativity, and community building. Using the artist/executive model as a basis for creative process, INSPIRIT has inspired a replicable structure of art-making and social change present in initiatives such as Dancing While Black, Sydnie Mosely and Dancers, Joye Movement, and Brotherhood Dance. INSPIRIT challenges the structure of traditional collectives and repertory companies by producing the work of choreographers within the company and collaborating on work driven by an artistic theme rather than the ideas of a sole artistic director. These differences allow each company member to forge a deep commitment to the company's mission; to infuse one another with ideas, to encourage rich collaboration and to invigorate audiences everywhere. In this way, INSPIRIT also serves as an incubator and generator for the individual artists and entrepreneurs who engage with and are involved with the company by providing a model and methodology for artistic practice and sustainability. |
THE COMPANY
Christal Brown
Founder/Artistic Director
Christal Brown is the founder of INSPIRIT, a dance company, and Project: BECOMING; creator of the Liquid Strength dance training module; and CVO of Steps and Stages Coaching, Facilitation and Consulting. She serves as Asso. Professor of Dance, Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence, and Director of the Anti-Racist Task Force at Middlebury College. In 2022, Brown was honored with the Walter Cerf Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts by the Vermont Arts Council.
A native of Kinston, NC, Brown accompanied her mother to NAACP meetings and Black Caucus rallies. Alongside her mother’s political path, Brown learned the mechanisms of cultural organizing and the organic synthesis of art and activism. This early training taught Brown to navigate segregated spaces and expand communication beyond words. Her physical experiences of justice were shaped in part by being born to a father who lost both legs in Vietnam. Brown recollects, “Loss was normalized for me at an early age. I learned that accessibility could counteract loss, and that movement was the only justice.”
Brown earned a BFA in Dance and a minor in Business from UNC-Greensboro, and an MFA in New Media Art and technology from Long Island Univ. She performed with Chuck Davis’ African-American Dance Ensemble, Andrea E. Woods/Souloworks and Gesel Mason Performance Projects, and apprenticed with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. Upon moving to NYC, Brown apprenticed with The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. before joining Urban Bush Women as a principal performer, community specialist and apprentice program coordinator. In 2018, after performing with Bebe Miller Company, Brown achieved a personal and professional milestone of dancing her way through the African diaspora. She then began focusing solely on her own work.
A native of Kinston, NC, Brown accompanied her mother to NAACP meetings and Black Caucus rallies. Alongside her mother’s political path, Brown learned the mechanisms of cultural organizing and the organic synthesis of art and activism. This early training taught Brown to navigate segregated spaces and expand communication beyond words. Her physical experiences of justice were shaped in part by being born to a father who lost both legs in Vietnam. Brown recollects, “Loss was normalized for me at an early age. I learned that accessibility could counteract loss, and that movement was the only justice.”
Brown earned a BFA in Dance and a minor in Business from UNC-Greensboro, and an MFA in New Media Art and technology from Long Island Univ. She performed with Chuck Davis’ African-American Dance Ensemble, Andrea E. Woods/Souloworks and Gesel Mason Performance Projects, and apprenticed with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. Upon moving to NYC, Brown apprenticed with The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. before joining Urban Bush Women as a principal performer, community specialist and apprentice program coordinator. In 2018, after performing with Bebe Miller Company, Brown achieved a personal and professional milestone of dancing her way through the African diaspora. She then began focusing solely on her own work.
Robin Wilson
Movement Artist
Robin Wilson (she, her, hers), currently Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan, located on the land of Odawa, Ojibwe, Boodewadomi and Wyandot peoples, sees teaching, artmaking, and activism as easy companions – giving voice to untold stories and giving tools for others to speak their truth. Choreographer, performer, improviser, vocalist, educator, activist, she sees no contradiction between making art, teaching others to discover the artist within, teaching others to understand their history and connection to the greater good and being an advocate for the arts and communities. A founding member of New York’s Urban Bush Women with an MFA in Choreography from Temple University with a soon-to-be completed certification in Katherine Dunham technique, Wilson's work explores the influences of the African Diaspora in historical and contemporary dance/culture, public scholarship, and social justice through community engagement, and most recently, documenting the oral histories of black dancers in Harlem during the Black Arts Movement of the early 1970s.
Recent collaborations include Ancestral Haiku, as vocalist and movement artist, with Detroit bassist Marion Hayden and visual artist M. Saffell Gardner, and What We Ask Of Flesh as a member of the New England-based dance company INSPIRIT: A Dance Company during the 2022 Reach residency at the Kennedy Center and 2021 residency at Jacob’s Pillow Lab. In September 2020, she premiered her solo Shattered Globes: For Tamara 2020 at Detroit Dance City Festival with subsequent performances at the Michigan Dance Festival and Midwest RAD Festival in early 2021.
Wilson’s choreography has been presented by Detroit Dance City Festival, Midwest RAD Festival, the Detroit’s Carr Center for the Arts, BAADASS! Women’s Dance Festival, Michigan Dance Festival, New Orleans Dance Festival, the National Theatre of Ghana in Accra, Ghana and in Athens, Greece. Her teaching includes artist residencies and master classes at Queensborough Community College, Brown University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California Los Angeles, Savannah College of Art and Design, the Ohio State University, Plymouth State University, Western Michigan University, Northern Colorado State University, Duke University, Arizona State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Paramaribo, Suriname. The former director of UM’s First-Year Touring Company, Wilson currently co-directs University of Michigan’s annual MPulse Summer Dance Institute.
In 1992, Wilson received a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award as a former member of Urban Bush Women for her collective work on the company’s dances River Songs (1984) and Praise House (1990). She continues to perform and collaborate with artists across cultures, bridging communities through dance and scholarship and activism.
Recent collaborations include Ancestral Haiku, as vocalist and movement artist, with Detroit bassist Marion Hayden and visual artist M. Saffell Gardner, and What We Ask Of Flesh as a member of the New England-based dance company INSPIRIT: A Dance Company during the 2022 Reach residency at the Kennedy Center and 2021 residency at Jacob’s Pillow Lab. In September 2020, she premiered her solo Shattered Globes: For Tamara 2020 at Detroit Dance City Festival with subsequent performances at the Michigan Dance Festival and Midwest RAD Festival in early 2021.
Wilson’s choreography has been presented by Detroit Dance City Festival, Midwest RAD Festival, the Detroit’s Carr Center for the Arts, BAADASS! Women’s Dance Festival, Michigan Dance Festival, New Orleans Dance Festival, the National Theatre of Ghana in Accra, Ghana and in Athens, Greece. Her teaching includes artist residencies and master classes at Queensborough Community College, Brown University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California Los Angeles, Savannah College of Art and Design, the Ohio State University, Plymouth State University, Western Michigan University, Northern Colorado State University, Duke University, Arizona State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Paramaribo, Suriname. The former director of UM’s First-Year Touring Company, Wilson currently co-directs University of Michigan’s annual MPulse Summer Dance Institute.
In 1992, Wilson received a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award as a former member of Urban Bush Women for her collective work on the company’s dances River Songs (1984) and Praise House (1990). She continues to perform and collaborate with artists across cultures, bridging communities through dance and scholarship and activism.
Ricarrdo Valentine
Movement Artist
Ricarrdo Valentine is a 2nd generation Black, Jamaican American/estadounidense, Same gender-loving photographer and dancer who finds value in collaboration, individuality, and intimacy. I move and take photos from intuition. Ricarrdo’s photographic work has been exhibited at Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Centro Universitario de las Artes (MX). He has presented his choreography at Bates Dance Festival, Brooklyn Museum, El Museo de Barro, LaGuardia Community College, and more. Ricarrdo continues to collaborate and work with Christal Brown/INspirit, Edisa Weeks/Delirious Dance, Paloma McGregor, Dante Brown/Warehouse Dance, Malcolm Low/Formal Structure, Jill Sigman/Thinkdance, Ni'Ja Whitson-Adebanjo/NWA project, Andre Zachary/RPG, Emily Berry/B3W and Barak ade Soliel. Ricarrdo is also the co-founder of Brother(hood) Dance!, a Brooklyn-based dance collective and 2020 Bessies Honoree for Afro/Solo/Man. He has a new ethno-visual project, Where My People At?, as a 2020-2021 NorthStar Art Incubator Fellow, and is pursuing an MFA in Dance integrating agriculture and technology at The Ohio State University. To view Ricarrdo's images, you can visit www.ricarrdovalentine.com, www.bhooddance.com.
Orlando Hunter
Movement Artist
Orlando Zane Hunter, Jr. is an international artist who has performed in Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe, Africa with Ananya Chatterjea. He has received a B.F.A. in dance from the University of Minnesota. Recently he choreographed and danced in "Redbone: A Biomythography'' which debuted at the Nuyorican Café, Wild Project Theater, and Duke University: Women’s Center. Orlando Hunter's solo, Mutiny, was selected in the 2015 Dancing While Black performance lab held in Trinidad and Tobago this year. He has presented his choreography at Thelma Hill and on the Time Warner cable network through Germaul Barnes’s project, Black Bones. Since his arrival in New York City, Orlando has performed works by Christal Brown, Edisa Weeks, Germaul Barnes, Andre Zachary/ Renegade Performance Group, Forces of Nature, and Ni’Ja Whitson-Adebanjo/NWA project. In addition, he is the co-founder of Brother(hood) Dance and 2015/16 Dancing While Black Fellow and 2020-2021 NorthStar Art Incubator Fellow, in addition to pursuing an MFA in Dance integrating agriculture and technology at The Ohio State University.
Alex Diaz
Movement Artist
Alexander Diaz is an independent artist born and raised in The Bronx. Alexander works with dance, theater, and performance art in order to explore memory, re-imagine history, and create environments that facilitate awareness of self and the performance of self in relation to others. Alex began their training at the Bronx Dance Academy and Bronx Dance Theater, and is a graduate of the University of The Arts and the Alonzo King Lines Ballet Training Program. Alex has worked with nathantrice/RITUALS, Christal Brown’s INSPIRIT, Ronald K. Brown, Fredrick Earl Mosley, Sara Shelton Mann, and is a member of Maurya Kerr's tinypistol. In 2019 Alex presented “Getting Closer To Coral” in the Double Plus Series at GIBNEY curated by Charmaine Warren. Alexander recently presented as an artist in residence at PEPATIÁN’s 2021 Dancing Futures held at BAAD. Alexander currently sits on the Junior Board of Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance.
Claudia Lynn-Rightmire
Movement Artist
Claudia-Lynn spends her days writing stories, drawing faces, and creating dances. Claudia-Lynn holds an Honors summa cum laude BA from Roger Williams University and is a certified health coach. She has taught, created, and collaborated in Florida, Australia, and NYC. Claudia-Lynn moves with INSPIRIT Dance Company, Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, and David Dorfman Dance. She has worked with New York City Children’s Theater, Third Rail Projects, Kinesis Project Dance, Moving Ethos Dance, Sarasota Contemporary Dance, and others. In 2021, she formed c/s movement projects alongside her partner, Simon Thomas-Train. She is driven by storytelling, voice, and shadow.
Arielle Brown
Dramaturge
Arielle Julia Brown (she/her)is a multidisciplinary cultural worker who commands and directs cultural spaces as sites for radical imagination, vision building and social transformation in her communities. Raised between Hayward California and Conley Georgia by her beloved migratory people, Arielle now also calls Philadelphia, PA home. Arielle’s practices traverse cultural strategy, performance curation, dramaturgy, facilitation and performance making. As a facilitator she has been most transformed by her work on The Love Balm Project, a workshop series and performance that centers the testimonies of mothers who have lost children to systemic violence (2010 -2015). Arielle is the founder, director and curator of Black Spatial Relics, a convener, developer, supporter and presenter of Black radical performance. Arielle is also a co-producer of Remember2019, an effort to center the congregation of Black Phillips County residents in the wake of the Elaine Massacre. Arielle is the writer and lead artist of Fallawayinto, a performance installation about Black trans woman activist, artist, sex worker and theologian Donna Booker. Arielle is a 2021 Leeway Transformation Awardee. Recent dramaturgy credits include What We Ask of Flesh by Christal Brown/INSPIRIT (Jacobs Pillow Residency, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2022) Grounds That Shout curated by Reggie Wilson (Philadelphia Contemporary 2019), Salt Pepper Ketchup by Josh Wilder (Interact Theatre/ Passages Theatre 2018). Arielle’s work has been published in Public Art Dialogue, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines, The Routledge Companion to Arts and Activism in the 21st Century and elsewhere. Arielle was recognized by Intersection for the Arts as a 2014 Changemaker. She was a Mellon Artistic Leadership Fellow for the 2014 Encuentro at LATC. Arielle was a 2019 Monument Lab National Fellow. Arielle is a 2021 Leeway Transformation Awardee. Arielle is in the inaugural cohort (2021 -2024) of Called By Water conceived and led by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and Sharon Bridgforth. Arielle received her B.A. in Theatre from Pomona College and holds an M.A. in Public Humanities from Brown University where she was the 2015-2017 Public History of Slavery Graduate Fellow with the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
FARAI MALIANGA
Videographer/Composer/Musician
Farai Malianga, born and raised in Zimbabwe, began his career in African Dance in Colorado with Leticia Williams’ Harambee and Musical Director Judy “Fatu” Henderson.
Upon arriving in New York he began studying dance and drum with pioneers Yousouf Koumbasa, Mbemba Bangoura and Ronald K. Brown.
Performing with the Masters; Chuck Davis in BAMs ‘Dance Africa’, Reginald Yates and Heritage O.P. for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre for their 40th Anniversary.
In Theatre; with the Off Broadway production of “Darker Faces of the Earth” directed by Trezana Beverley and on the Broadway Stage in the musical 'Fela!'
In Film; International Domestic Violence Series produced by Joe Rodman as well as Kasi Lemmon’s film “Black Nativity”.
Also Performing for the Public Theater in 2021 for their Shakespeare in the Park reimagining of “Merry Wives of Windsor” set in Harlem and consequently appearing in the HBO documentary “Reopening Night” cataloguing the return to Central Park.
Malianga's composition credits include commissioned works for Camille Brown, Karen Loves’ Umoja, Christal Browns’ Inspirit Dance Companies and "Jenaguru" An African Creation Myth for the Smithsonian. Recently scoring music for the the Dance Documentarys “Black Stains” and Kehinde Ishangi’s “Not My Enemy” produced and edited by Tiffany Rhynard.
As a videographer/editor recently worked the archival documentary for “Kumbuka” the longest active New Orleans nased West African Dance troupes in collaboration with Cultural Ties, Kelly White and Sulé-Joel Adams. Malianga has also worked as both Sound and Multimedia Designer for “The Power of the Unknown” a collaborative project under the direction of Dr Darian Parker and Daaimah Taalib-Din.
Farai Malianga is honored to be joining FSU as a tenure track Proffesor with a focus on Music for dance and choreography. This year teaching Rhythmic Analysis, Music for Choreography, Digital Audio Recording while also providing music support for African, Dunham and Contemporary classes.
Upon arriving in New York he began studying dance and drum with pioneers Yousouf Koumbasa, Mbemba Bangoura and Ronald K. Brown.
Performing with the Masters; Chuck Davis in BAMs ‘Dance Africa’, Reginald Yates and Heritage O.P. for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre for their 40th Anniversary.
In Theatre; with the Off Broadway production of “Darker Faces of the Earth” directed by Trezana Beverley and on the Broadway Stage in the musical 'Fela!'
In Film; International Domestic Violence Series produced by Joe Rodman as well as Kasi Lemmon’s film “Black Nativity”.
Also Performing for the Public Theater in 2021 for their Shakespeare in the Park reimagining of “Merry Wives of Windsor” set in Harlem and consequently appearing in the HBO documentary “Reopening Night” cataloguing the return to Central Park.
Malianga's composition credits include commissioned works for Camille Brown, Karen Loves’ Umoja, Christal Browns’ Inspirit Dance Companies and "Jenaguru" An African Creation Myth for the Smithsonian. Recently scoring music for the the Dance Documentarys “Black Stains” and Kehinde Ishangi’s “Not My Enemy” produced and edited by Tiffany Rhynard.
As a videographer/editor recently worked the archival documentary for “Kumbuka” the longest active New Orleans nased West African Dance troupes in collaboration with Cultural Ties, Kelly White and Sulé-Joel Adams. Malianga has also worked as both Sound and Multimedia Designer for “The Power of the Unknown” a collaborative project under the direction of Dr Darian Parker and Daaimah Taalib-Din.
Farai Malianga is honored to be joining FSU as a tenure track Proffesor with a focus on Music for dance and choreography. This year teaching Rhythmic Analysis, Music for Choreography, Digital Audio Recording while also providing music support for African, Dunham and Contemporary classes.
Scotty Hardwig
Media Designer
Scotty Hardwig is a movement artist, performer, and teacher originally from southwest Virginia. His research practice is at the confluence of sensory media and the dancing body, creating movement-based artwork through live performance, installation/site-specific, cinematic and digital media. As a freelance performer and company member of AXIS Dance Company, he has had the honor of working with internationally recognized choreographers like Marc Brew, Stephen Koester, Johannes Wieland, Joe Goode, Amy Seiwart, Eric Handman, Yannis Adoniou, Satu Hummasti, Stephan Koplowitz, Damien Muñoz, and Virginia Garcia. As a choreographer, his processes are collaborative and experimental, investigating the existential in-between spaces of meaning and metaphor inherent to the human body in motion. He has created works for companies like Roanoke Ballet Theatre (Virginia), the National Ballet of Ecuador (EC), LEVYdance (San Francisco, CA), La Revuelta Laboratorio Escénico (MX), the Dance Company of Middlebury (Vermont), and his own collaborative teams. Recent projects, supported by the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) include Body, Full of Time (2019), Time Garden (2019-2020), ENGRAM 4 (2021), and Daedalus Dreams (2022), which all investigate the chimeric relationship between digital and physical versions of self. By poetically reframing digital and post-digital technologies through dance, these works combine motion capture, virtual reality, unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), and various forms of interactive streaming to explore new forms of choreographic expression.
In addition to being a choreographer and performer, he is also an award-winning videodance artist and director, with his dance for camera works frequently screened internationally in North America, Europe, and Asia. Works from his most recent screendance series, the Mothers|Lands triad, have won best dance film awards at festivals in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Japan, Sweden, Canada, and a nomination for Best Experimental at Cannes World Film Festival in France. He received his MFA in Dance from the University of Utah, and has served on the faculty at the University of Utah and Middlebury College, and is currently an Assistant Professor in Movement, Performance and Integrated Media at Virginia Tech, where he is experimenting and creating choreographic and cinematic works at the intersection of technology and the body. www.anatomyzero.com
In addition to being a choreographer and performer, he is also an award-winning videodance artist and director, with his dance for camera works frequently screened internationally in North America, Europe, and Asia. Works from his most recent screendance series, the Mothers|Lands triad, have won best dance film awards at festivals in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Japan, Sweden, Canada, and a nomination for Best Experimental at Cannes World Film Festival in France. He received his MFA in Dance from the University of Utah, and has served on the faculty at the University of Utah and Middlebury College, and is currently an Assistant Professor in Movement, Performance and Integrated Media at Virginia Tech, where he is experimenting and creating choreographic and cinematic works at the intersection of technology and the body. www.anatomyzero.com
Trebien Pollard
Costume Designer
Trebien Pollard is a graduate of Florida A&M University with a BS in Mathematics Education and a MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He received training at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Florida A & M University, Florida State University, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, and from a number of gifted teachers and choreographers. Trebien has performed with many dance companies, including Tania Isaac Dance, Nia Love, Martha Graham Ensemble, RIOULT, Pearl Lang Dance Theatre, Rebecca Stenn Co., Erick Hawkins Dance Co., the MET (Metropolitan Opera Ballet), Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Bebe Miller Company, Urban Bush Women and Pilobolus. He will appear in the upcoming jazz musical opera, The Hang by Taylor Mac (Librettist) and Matt Ray (Composer).
As a choreographer, Trebien’s work has been performed throughout the United States, England and Japan. He has choreographed and toured, nationally and internationally, with RASA recording artist ‘Nomad’. Trebien has also choreographed William Electric Black's The Hamlet Project, The Damned: A Rock Musical and Frankenstein: The Rock Musical. Presently, he is the associate choreographer with MacArthur Fellow, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (choreographer) in the upcoming opera, The Ritual of Breath is the Rite to Resist by Jonathan Berger (Composer) and Vievee Francis (Librettist). Trebien’s most recent creative work considers interdisciplinary design, geographic sites, embodied language and spatial strategies as emancipatory practices for survival and liberation.
Trebien appeared in Mannic Production's feature film "Ghostlight", starring Richard Move as 'Martha Graham'. As well as appearing in several photography books; In My Stairwell (Mark Seliger), Twisted Yoga (Pilobolus), Body Knots and Passion & Lines (Howard Schatz). He has been on faculty at the American Dance Festival, Queens College, Adelphi University, the University of Southern Mississippi, Goucher College, Middlebury College, Marymount Manhattan College, Montclair State University, the University at Buffalo and Dartmouth College. Currently. Trebien is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as a licensed certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® personal trainer.
As a choreographer, Trebien’s work has been performed throughout the United States, England and Japan. He has choreographed and toured, nationally and internationally, with RASA recording artist ‘Nomad’. Trebien has also choreographed William Electric Black's The Hamlet Project, The Damned: A Rock Musical and Frankenstein: The Rock Musical. Presently, he is the associate choreographer with MacArthur Fellow, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (choreographer) in the upcoming opera, The Ritual of Breath is the Rite to Resist by Jonathan Berger (Composer) and Vievee Francis (Librettist). Trebien’s most recent creative work considers interdisciplinary design, geographic sites, embodied language and spatial strategies as emancipatory practices for survival and liberation.
Trebien appeared in Mannic Production's feature film "Ghostlight", starring Richard Move as 'Martha Graham'. As well as appearing in several photography books; In My Stairwell (Mark Seliger), Twisted Yoga (Pilobolus), Body Knots and Passion & Lines (Howard Schatz). He has been on faculty at the American Dance Festival, Queens College, Adelphi University, the University of Southern Mississippi, Goucher College, Middlebury College, Marymount Manhattan College, Montclair State University, the University at Buffalo and Dartmouth College. Currently. Trebien is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as a licensed certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® personal trainer.
Deborah Harte Felmeth
COMPOSER/Musician
Deborah is a Vermont based Vocalist, and multi instrumentalist, with extensive experience in performance, improvisation, and teaching. She has been a member of the Dance Department of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont for several years, is The Minister of Music for the Salisbury Congregational Church in Salisbury, Vermont, and teaches both piano and voice to students of all ages. She has traveled extensively and studied the musics of South Africa, Georgia, India, and the Middle East where she also teaches at The High Institute Of Music in Damascus, Syria. She studies and teaches both Yoga and Qi Gong. Playing music and practicing, both with Beginner Mind.
Jennifer Fok
Lighting Designer
Jennifer Fok is a Chinese American lighting designer whose design
collaborations center around reimagining classics, established plays, and exploring new work in theatre, dance, and music. Select designs have been seen at Spoleto Festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Lincoln Center Education, TheatreWorks Co Springs, Flint Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, The Geva Theatre, Center Repertory Theatre, Brown /Trinity, Detroit Public Theatre, NCPA Beijing, Gala Hispanic, Ars Nova, Penobscot Theatre, The Theatre At Monmouth, among others. BFA in Theatre Production and Design from Ithaca College.
www.jenniferfok.com
collaborations center around reimagining classics, established plays, and exploring new work in theatre, dance, and music. Select designs have been seen at Spoleto Festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Lincoln Center Education, TheatreWorks Co Springs, Flint Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, The Geva Theatre, Center Repertory Theatre, Brown /Trinity, Detroit Public Theatre, NCPA Beijing, Gala Hispanic, Ars Nova, Penobscot Theatre, The Theatre At Monmouth, among others. BFA in Theatre Production and Design from Ithaca College.
www.jenniferfok.com
Founding Members & Alumni
1st Generation
Paloma McGregor
Rhea Patterson
Kristin Taylor Duncan
Jema Aska
Afua Hall
Lela Aisha Jones
Rosalyn Quaye
2nd Generation
Krystal Butler
Candace Thompson-Zachary
Alexandra Joye Warren
Melana Lloyd
Shoccara Marcus
Chevon Stewart
Tina Louise Vasquez
Toni Rene Johnson
Beatrice Capote
Zoe Robinowitz
Sydney L Mosley
Malcom McDonald
Paloma McGregor
Rhea Patterson
Kristin Taylor Duncan
Jema Aska
Afua Hall
Lela Aisha Jones
Rosalyn Quaye
2nd Generation
Krystal Butler
Candace Thompson-Zachary
Alexandra Joye Warren
Melana Lloyd
Shoccara Marcus
Chevon Stewart
Tina Louise Vasquez
Toni Rene Johnson
Beatrice Capote
Zoe Robinowitz
Sydney L Mosley
Malcom McDonald