Rebecca Fitton (she/her) is an improviser and facilitator. Born in England and raised in the woods of Wisconsin, her work as a community organizer and participatory artist is largely informed by her experiences as a bi-racial immigrant. Her performance projects have been presented in New York City at ShowDown/Gibney, Open Performance/Movement Research, Chez Bushwick, Staten Island Arts, Triskelion Arts, LiVEART.US at the Queens Museum, Abrons Arts Center, LEIMAY and Performance is Alive/SATELLITE ART SHOW. She has also worked in many non-traditional performance spaces such as bars, grocery stores, rooftops, gardens and streets across New York, New Jersey, Florida, Wisconsin, and Salzburg, Austria. She has been an artist in residence at Center in Grand Rapids, MI, a LEIMAY Subsidized Fellow at CAVE in Brooklyn, NY and a participant in Hemispheric Institute's EMERGENYC program.
As an arts administrator, Fitton works for Pentacle as their Education & Outreach Associate where she has grown their Education & Outreach programs significantly since her arrival. She also developed and directed their Arts Management Training Fellowship which launched in 2020 with support from New York State Council on the Arts' Regional Economic Development Council. She is the Community Engagement Coordinator for Edisa Weeks/DELIRIOUS Dances, managing ROOTS PARTIES since 2017 and facilitating program activities for 3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness which is slated to premiere at 651 Arts in 2021. She also works as a freelance project manager/grant writer and currently works with Will Rawls, Adrienne Westwood, Abigail Levine, and Omri Drumlevich. In 2020, she stepped in the Administrative Manager Role for ARTS in NYC, a Study-Domestic program at Florida State University.
She has been a member of Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee since 2018 and is on the Steering Committee of FAILSPACE. As a performer, Fitton worked with Abigail Levine, Adrienne Westwood, JAC, JACKS, Kayla McClellan, Nathaniel Hendrickson, Renegade Performance Group, and Rina Espiritu. Fitton holds a BFA in Dance with Honors from Florida State University.
Upcoming projects include:
- Traveling to Northern Michigan to engage with the Croft Residency’s artists to research how independent, artist-driven residencies are developed and sustained. (postponed)
- Presenting You are (NOT) here., an immersive dance performance, film, community meal, and zine. Through the framework of psychogeography, the psychological mapping of locations' effects on emotion, the work reveals erased, misremembered and marginalized aspects of Asian America. You are (NOT) here. is supported, in part, by Queens Council on the Arts' New Work Grant and will conclude her two-year Asian American series. You are (NOT) here. will be presented via Zoom in Fall 2020.
For more information about upcoming projects please get in touch.
Photo by June Cheung
[Image Description: Rebecca's face peeks out from behind thin gold strands that reflect rainbows into the camera lens.]
As an arts administrator, Fitton works for Pentacle as their Education & Outreach Associate where she has grown their Education & Outreach programs significantly since her arrival. She also developed and directed their Arts Management Training Fellowship which launched in 2020 with support from New York State Council on the Arts' Regional Economic Development Council. She is the Community Engagement Coordinator for Edisa Weeks/DELIRIOUS Dances, managing ROOTS PARTIES since 2017 and facilitating program activities for 3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness which is slated to premiere at 651 Arts in 2021. She also works as a freelance project manager/grant writer and currently works with Will Rawls, Adrienne Westwood, Abigail Levine, and Omri Drumlevich. In 2020, she stepped in the Administrative Manager Role for ARTS in NYC, a Study-Domestic program at Florida State University.
She has been a member of Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee since 2018 and is on the Steering Committee of FAILSPACE. As a performer, Fitton worked with Abigail Levine, Adrienne Westwood, JAC, JACKS, Kayla McClellan, Nathaniel Hendrickson, Renegade Performance Group, and Rina Espiritu. Fitton holds a BFA in Dance with Honors from Florida State University.
Upcoming projects include:
- Traveling to Northern Michigan to engage with the Croft Residency’s artists to research how independent, artist-driven residencies are developed and sustained. (postponed)
- Presenting You are (NOT) here., an immersive dance performance, film, community meal, and zine. Through the framework of psychogeography, the psychological mapping of locations' effects on emotion, the work reveals erased, misremembered and marginalized aspects of Asian America. You are (NOT) here. is supported, in part, by Queens Council on the Arts' New Work Grant and will conclude her two-year Asian American series. You are (NOT) here. will be presented via Zoom in Fall 2020.
For more information about upcoming projects please get in touch.
Photo by June Cheung
[Image Description: Rebecca's face peeks out from behind thin gold strands that reflect rainbows into the camera lens.]
