Rebecca Fitton (she/her) is from many places.
She creates community through conversation, food, and movement.
Born in England and raised in 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, in addition to providing development support for Adrienne Westwood and 2nd Best Dance Company. 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 prison reform and abolition movements. She was a member of Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee from 2018-2020. Additional service to the field includes: panelist for Dance/NYC’s 2020 Dance Advancement Fund for Triskelion Art’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence, speaker for Administrators of Color Network’s 2020 Annual Convening, Dance Studies Association 2021 Conference, and Dance/NYC's 2021 Town Hall: Re-Entering With Care. She is a 2021 participant in Dance/USA’s Institute for Leadership Training.
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). Her writing has been shared by Triskelion Arts, Emergency Index, and The Dancer-Citizen journal. She shares an ongoing trans-Atlantic movement practice conducted against Instagram’s algorithm with UK-based artist, Kayla McClellan. Most recently, she completed a three-year process that explored 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.
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 and The Bridge Collective. Currently, she is pursuing an MA in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a BFA in Dance from Florida State University.
Fitton currently works as an independent arts manager for Will Rawls, in addition to providing development support for Adrienne Westwood and 2nd Best Dance Company. 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 prison reform and abolition movements. She was a member of Dance/NYC’s Junior Committee from 2018-2020. Additional service to the field includes: panelist for Dance/NYC’s 2020 Dance Advancement Fund for Triskelion Art’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence, speaker for Administrators of Color Network’s 2020 Annual Convening, Dance Studies Association 2021 Conference, and Dance/NYC's 2021 Town Hall: Re-Entering With Care. She is a 2021 participant in Dance/USA’s Institute for Leadership Training.
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). Her writing has been shared by Triskelion Arts, Emergency Index, and The Dancer-Citizen journal. She shares an ongoing trans-Atlantic movement practice conducted against Instagram’s algorithm with UK-based artist, Kayla McClellan. Most recently, she completed a three-year process that explored 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.
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 and The Bridge Collective. Currently, she is pursuing an MA in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a BFA in Dance from Florida State University.
