Rebecca Fitton is from many places.
She creates community through conversation, food, and movement.
Born in England and raised in Wisconsin, their work as a community member and participatory artist is largely informed by their 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 the Studio Director for Will Rawls. She has previously worked with J. Bouey, zavé martohardjono, and FAILSPACE. From 2017-2021, she worked with DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks coordinating public events including DELIRIOUS’ Roots Parties, a making and conversation space focused on abolition movements. She was a member of Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee from 2018-2020 and was a participant of Dance/USA's Institute for Leadership Training in 2021. They have served as a panelist for Dance/NYC’s 2020 Dance Advancement Fund and Triskelion Art’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence; as a speaker for Administrators of Color Network’s 2020 Annual Convening, Dance/NYC's 2021 Town Hall: Re-Entering With Care, and Dance/NYC's 2022 Symposium; and presented their research at Dance Studies Association's 2021 and 2022 Conferences, .
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 (2019, MI), CAVE (2019, NY), EMERGENYC (2019, NY), and The Croft (2021, MI). They have self-published their writing in addition to publications support from Triskelion Arts, Emergency Index, Dancer's Group's In Dance, The Dancer-Citizen, and Etudes.
Fitton currently performs and writes audio description for Adrienne Westwood, and organizes direct action with Structures for Change, Dance Artists’ National Collective, and The Bridge Collective. She holds a BFA in Dance from Florida State University and is currently pursuing an MA in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin.
Fitton currently works as the Studio Director for Will Rawls. She has previously worked with J. Bouey, zavé martohardjono, and FAILSPACE. From 2017-2021, she worked with DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks coordinating public events including DELIRIOUS’ Roots Parties, a making and conversation space focused on abolition movements. She was a member of Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee from 2018-2020 and was a participant of Dance/USA's Institute for Leadership Training in 2021. They have served as a panelist for Dance/NYC’s 2020 Dance Advancement Fund and Triskelion Art’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence; as a speaker for Administrators of Color Network’s 2020 Annual Convening, Dance/NYC's 2021 Town Hall: Re-Entering With Care, and Dance/NYC's 2022 Symposium; and presented their research at Dance Studies Association's 2021 and 2022 Conferences, .
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 (2019, MI), CAVE (2019, NY), EMERGENYC (2019, NY), and The Croft (2021, MI). They have self-published their writing in addition to publications support from Triskelion Arts, Emergency Index, Dancer's Group's In Dance, The Dancer-Citizen, and Etudes.
Fitton currently performs and writes audio description for Adrienne Westwood, and organizes direct action with Structures for Change, Dance Artists’ National Collective, and The Bridge Collective. She holds a BFA in Dance from Florida State University and is currently pursuing an MA in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin.
