Rebecca Fitton (she/her) is from many places.
She creates community through conversation, food, and movement.
Born in England and raised in the woods of Wisconsin, her work as a community member and participatory artist is largely informed by her experiences as a multi-cultural immigrant. She strives to give equal priority to her multifaceted roles in the dance community as an artist, administrator, advocate, and audience member.
Fitton currently works as an independent arts manager for Will Rawls and Zavé Martohardjono, in addition to providing development support for Adrienne Westwood and 2nd Best Dance Company. Since 2017, she has worked as the Community Engagement Coordinator for DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks facilitating public facing events including DELIRIOUS’ Roots Parties, a making and conversation space focused on prison reform and abolition movements. She has previously worked with J. Bouey as a project manager. Fitton holds virtual space bi-weekly with the six members of FAILSPACE, a collective of artists working—and sometimes failing— to dismantle oppressive structures within peer-to-peer teaching and performance practices. She was a member of Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee from 2018-2020 and was Secretary from 2019-2020. Additional service to the field includes as a panelist for Dance/NYC’s 2020 Dance Advancement Fund, Triskelion Art’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence, and as a featured speaker at the 2020 Arts Administrators of Color Network’s Annual Convening. She is a 2021 participant in Dance/USA’s Institute for Leadership Training (DILT).
Fitton presents her artistic work in non-traditional performance spaces. She has shared work in bars, grocery stores, rooftops, gardens, sidewalks, and streets across New York, New Jersey, Florida, Wisconsin, and Salzburg, Austria. She has been an artist-in-residence at Center (MI), The Croft (MI) a LEIMAY Subsidized Fellow at CAVE (NY), and a 2019 EMERGENYC participant (NY). Most recently, she completed a three-year process researching Asian American identity as an immigrant-now-citizen. She facilitated a Studies Project, “Re-presenting Asian American” at Movement Research (NY) in 2019 and received a 2020 New Work Grant from Queens Council on the Arts (NY) to present the research's culminating performance. The immersive performance, film, and reflection space explored nonlinear archival methods and captioning interventions. She shares an ongoing trans-Atlantic movement practice conducted against Instagram’s algorithm with UK-based artist, Kayla McClellan. Her writing has been published by Triskelion Arts and Emergency Index.
As a performer, Fitton currently works with Structures for Change and Adrienne Westwood. She has previously worked with Abigail Levine, JACKS, Nathaniel Hendrickson, Renegade Performance Group, Rina Espiritu, Alex Ketley, and Rodger Belman. She is a proud member of Dance Artists’ National Collective. Currently based in Appleton, Wisconsin, the fall will call her south again as she relocates to Austin, TX to continue her public school education and support the arts from a new geographic home.
Fitton currently works as an independent arts manager for Will Rawls and Zavé Martohardjono, in addition to providing development support for Adrienne Westwood and 2nd Best Dance Company. Since 2017, she has worked as the Community Engagement Coordinator for DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks facilitating public facing events including DELIRIOUS’ Roots Parties, a making and conversation space focused on prison reform and abolition movements. She has previously worked with J. Bouey as a project manager. Fitton holds virtual space bi-weekly with the six members of FAILSPACE, a collective of artists working—and sometimes failing— to dismantle oppressive structures within peer-to-peer teaching and performance practices. She was a member of Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee from 2018-2020 and was Secretary from 2019-2020. Additional service to the field includes as a panelist for Dance/NYC’s 2020 Dance Advancement Fund, Triskelion Art’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence, and as a featured speaker at the 2020 Arts Administrators of Color Network’s Annual Convening. She is a 2021 participant in Dance/USA’s Institute for Leadership Training (DILT).
Fitton presents her artistic work in non-traditional performance spaces. She has shared work in bars, grocery stores, rooftops, gardens, sidewalks, and streets across New York, New Jersey, Florida, Wisconsin, and Salzburg, Austria. She has been an artist-in-residence at Center (MI), The Croft (MI) a LEIMAY Subsidized Fellow at CAVE (NY), and a 2019 EMERGENYC participant (NY). Most recently, she completed a three-year process researching Asian American identity as an immigrant-now-citizen. She facilitated a Studies Project, “Re-presenting Asian American” at Movement Research (NY) in 2019 and received a 2020 New Work Grant from Queens Council on the Arts (NY) to present the research's culminating performance. The immersive performance, film, and reflection space explored nonlinear archival methods and captioning interventions. She shares an ongoing trans-Atlantic movement practice conducted against Instagram’s algorithm with UK-based artist, Kayla McClellan. Her writing has been published by Triskelion Arts and Emergency Index.
As a performer, Fitton currently works with Structures for Change and Adrienne Westwood. She has previously worked with Abigail Levine, JACKS, Nathaniel Hendrickson, Renegade Performance Group, Rina Espiritu, Alex Ketley, and Rodger Belman. She is a proud member of Dance Artists’ National Collective. Currently based in Appleton, Wisconsin, the fall will call her south again as she relocates to Austin, TX to continue her public school education and support the arts from a new geographic home.
