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 primarily works in non-traditional spaces including bars, grocery stores, rooftops, gardens and streets across New York, New Jersey, Florida, Wisconsin, and Salzburg, Austria. Her work has 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, Performance is Alive/SATELLITE ART SHOW, and EstroGenius. 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. She received a 2020 New Work Grant from Queens Council on the Arts to present re______, an immersive performance, film, and reflection space presented through Zoom and USPS that explored her belated learning of Asian American history, reclaiming archival processes, and captioning interventions. She shares an ongoing, trans-Atlantic movement practice with Kayla McClellan, @kinected_connected.
Fitton holds her administrative work as an integral aspect of her artistic process. Since 2017, she has worked as the Community Engagement Coordinator for DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks. She currently works as an independent arts manager for Will Rawls, J. Bouey, and 2nd Best Dance Company. Fitton holds virtual space bi-weekly with the six Steering Committee Members of FAILSPACE, a collective of artists working to dismantle oppressive structures within teaching practices. She was a member of Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee from 2018-2020 and acted as Secretary from 2019-2020. She served on panels for Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund and Triskelion Art’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence.
As a performer, Fitton has worked with Hannah Schwadron, Abigail Levine, Adrienne Westwood, JACKS, Nathaniel Hendrickson, Renegade Performance Group, Rina Espiritu, Alex Ketley, and Rodger Belman.
Current curiosities: regional arts policy, neoliberalism and the NEA, neuro-divergence, captioning interventions.
Always curiosities: Asian-American-immigrant-English-queerness-and-deep-intergenerational-healing.
Upcoming projects:
- Traveling to Northern Michigan to engage with the Croft Residency’s artists to research how independent, artist-driven residencies are developed and sustained. (June 2021)
She primarily works in non-traditional spaces including bars, grocery stores, rooftops, gardens and streets across New York, New Jersey, Florida, Wisconsin, and Salzburg, Austria. Her work has 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, Performance is Alive/SATELLITE ART SHOW, and EstroGenius. 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. She received a 2020 New Work Grant from Queens Council on the Arts to present re______, an immersive performance, film, and reflection space presented through Zoom and USPS that explored her belated learning of Asian American history, reclaiming archival processes, and captioning interventions. She shares an ongoing, trans-Atlantic movement practice with Kayla McClellan, @kinected_connected.
Fitton holds her administrative work as an integral aspect of her artistic process. Since 2017, she has worked as the Community Engagement Coordinator for DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks. She currently works as an independent arts manager for Will Rawls, J. Bouey, and 2nd Best Dance Company. Fitton holds virtual space bi-weekly with the six Steering Committee Members of FAILSPACE, a collective of artists working to dismantle oppressive structures within teaching practices. She was a member of Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee from 2018-2020 and acted as Secretary from 2019-2020. She served on panels for Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund and Triskelion Art’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence.
As a performer, Fitton has worked with Hannah Schwadron, Abigail Levine, Adrienne Westwood, JACKS, Nathaniel Hendrickson, Renegade Performance Group, Rina Espiritu, Alex Ketley, and Rodger Belman.
Current curiosities: regional arts policy, neoliberalism and the NEA, neuro-divergence, captioning interventions.
Always curiosities: Asian-American-immigrant-English-queerness-and-deep-intergenerational-healing.
Upcoming projects:
- Traveling to Northern Michigan to engage with the Croft Residency’s artists to research how independent, artist-driven residencies are developed and sustained. (June 2021)
