Fana Fraser

Next! Workshop series hosted by Pioneers Go East Collective.

“A generous space will be cultivated, time will slow down, and participants are invited to listen and be in regenerative dialogue with their bodies.  We will dance, sing, shout, journal, and be still”. - Fana Fraser.

Saturday, March 20, 2021, from 3:00 PM to  5:00 PM

No ‘professional arts training’ necessary to participate.- Free & Online.

RSVP at pioneersgoeast@gmail.com - All participants are welcome!

Fana Fraser is an artist, performer, and director. She was born and raised on Kairi, now known as Trinidad and Tobago, and is currently living in Brooklyn on Lenape land. Her work is rooted in a contemporary Caribbean aesthetic and framed by narratives of eroticism, power, and compassion. Most recently, Fana was shortlisted for the 2020 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writer’s Prize. Her performances have been presented at region(es), Issue Project Room, Wassaic Project, Brooklyn Museum, The Knockdown Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, BAAD!, La MaMa Moves!, the CURRENT SESSIONS, Gibney, Trinidad Theatre Workshop, and Emerging Artists Theatre.

Fana was a Movement Research Van Lier Fellow (2017), a resident artist at the inaugural MANCC Forward Dialogues Choreographic Lab (2017), a resident at the Dance & Performance Institute in Trinidad & Tobago (2016) and for Dancing Futures 2016 - a project partnership between BAAD! and Pepatián. She has served as Rehearsal Director for Ailey II. A full spectrum doula in training, Fana also currently works as a co-director for Pepatián and as a member of the Artist Council for The Field. As a dancer, she has worked with Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Ailey II, Sidra Bell Dance NY, The Francesca Harper Project, The Metropolitan Opera, Andrea Miller for Hermès, and with Ryan McNamara at Performa 13, Art Basel Miami, Guggenheim Works & Process, Frieze New York, and The ICA Boston. fanafraser.com