Over the past five years, your support and trust have provided the foundation necessary to make EMERGE125 one of the country's fastest growing performance ensembles and Harlem's foremost dance company. 2024 finds E125 more vital than ever before: expanding into new projects, increasing the size of our ensemble, solidifying much needed executive infrastructure, reaching new audiences in education and the arts, and fully realizing our outsized ambitions. 

EMERGE125 is excited to invite you to our Renaissance Gala 2024: The Making of A Moment, a stage to honor our past, reflect on our present, and celebrate E125’s innovative and audacious future!. This black-tie event will highlight the recent triumphs of our Artistic Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher and give special consideration to the contributions of our partners at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & The Bay and Paul Foundations. We hope you will consider joining us at the Renaissance Harlem Hotel for cocktails, dinner, and a live performance from our company. All of E125's staff and dancers look forward to seeing you there!

For more information or additional payment options contact Juliane Slater at juliane@emerge125.org

Steps on Broadway will be shining a spotlight on the Black Voices in Dance. Artistic Director, Tiffany Rea-Fisher will be teaching Int/Adv Contemporary on Friday, February 16th from 8:30-10:00pm. Join us for an evening of joy, athleticism, and dance. You won’t want to miss it! Register for class TODAY!

Artist's Corner:
A Conversation with Tiffany Rea-Fisher & Alicia Graf Mack

Monday, February 12, 6PM - 8PM
at The Phillips Club (155 West 66th Street)
$62

Includes pre-conversation refreshments and post-conversation Q&A

The upcoming installment of EMERGE125's ongoing Artist's Corner series features an evening of conversation with two Black female dance directors – E125 Artistic Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher and Dean and Director of Juilliard Dance Alicia Graf Mack – as they discuss experiences, successes, and challenges within the field. As Juilliard's first Black Dance director (as well as its youngest), Graf Mack has been busy remaking and redefining the celebrated Dance department since her arrival in 2018; she was also recently named a 2023 Dance Magazine Awards honoree. Rea-Fisher recently finished choreography work on The Public Theater's production of The Tempest and is currently working on choreography for the new musical Gun & Powder, coming to Paper Mill Playhouse in 2024. Rea-Fisher was also recently chosen by National Dance Institute as their 2024 Artist-in-Residence.

This event offers attendees the rare chance to hear an informal conversation between two accomplished artists – one a dancer, the other a choreographer – who also have a lot to say about being young, Black executives at New York City arts institutions, as well as the opportunity to join in the conversation during the Q&A, which will end the evening. Artist's Corner is hosted by the EMERGE125 Young Executives Board and begins at 6PM with light refreshments and drinks.

About the Artists:

Alicia Graf Mack began her inaugural season as Dean and Director of Juilliard Dance in the fall of 2018. Before assuming that role, Graf Mack enjoyed a distinguished career as a principal dancer of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Graf Mack has danced as a guest performer with Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, Beyoncé, John Legend, Andre 3000, Alicia Keys, and Jon Batiste, in addition to numerous appearances in galas, festivals and nationally aired television shows. Graf Mack graduated magna cum laude with honors in history from Columbia University and holds an MA in nonprofit management from Washington University in St. Louis. As a dance educator, Graf Mack was an assistant professor at Webster University in 2010-2011 and 2015-2018, and taught as adjunct faculty at the University of Houston and Washington University in St. Louis. She is a co-founder of D(n)A Arts Collective, an initiative created with her sister to enrich the lives of young dancers through master classes and intensives. Graf Mack is the proud co-producer and host of a new podcast, Moving Moments, featuring authentic conversations with some of the most celebrated, ground-breaking artists in the field of dance.

Tiffany Rea-Fisher is the Artistic Director of EMERGE125, a Mellon Grant-funded performance company headquartered out of Harlem and the Adirondacks, currently in residence at The Flea Theater. She is also the dance curator for Bryant Park Picnic Performances and the Executive Director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative. Over the course of her career, Rea-Fisher has been commissioned by The National Gallery of Art in D.C., the Dallas Black Dance Theater, and Utah Repertory Dance Theater. Her works have been seen on stage at the Joyce, the Apollo, New York City Center, Joe's Pub, Red Bull Stadium, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Chelsea Factory, and New York Live Arts. Recent accomplishments include her 2022 Dance Theatre of Harlem commission, Sounds of Hazel, celebrating the life of the trailblazing activist and musician Hazel Scott, and choreography central to The Public Theater’s 2023 Delacorte production of The Tempest. Rea-Fisher is a COHI member of the International Association of Blacks in Dance, an Advisory Board member of Dance/NYC, and a member of Women of Color in the Arts. Rea-Fisher was the first dance curator for the interdisciplinary arts organization The Tank. She is a 7-time AUDELCO award nominee, 2022 Toulmin Fellow, National Dance Project Award winner, Creatives Rebuild New York Awardee, John Brown Spirit Award recipient, Bessies Award Selection Committee member, and was awarded a citation from the City of New York for her cultural contributions.